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CHARACTERS AND ORIGINAL CAST. 



Chas. Adams, the Loyal Heart W. D. Park ell 

Mr. Weston, afterwards a Confederate General . . . . M. Cavana 
Mr. Bane, partner in business with Weston . . . W. Hector Gale 
John Haw, a clerk with Adams, in the employ of Weston & 

Bane Wm. Constantine 

Herbert Lawson, Captain C. S. A Frank H. Aubeuf 

Nina, daughter of Gen. Weston Miss Gertrude Munz 

Harriet, the White Slave of Gen. Weston . . . Mrs. W. F. Snow- 
Jake Schmidt, the German sutler E. R. Boden 

Pete, a servant of Capt. Lawson Charles N. Dean 

Jimmy Brady, a Union Soldier Cal. McGuiuness 

Sam Snicker, a down east Yankee E R. Niles 

Eugene Ross, a Union boy Henry D. Burkhart 

Lieut. Clark, a Courier from the front 

Ben, servant of Gen. Weston Master John Boden 

Ladies and gentlemen of Burton, S. C, police officers, sentries, 
guards, Boys in Blue, Confederate Soldiers, etc. 



SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY AND 
INCIDENTS. 



ACT I— Burton, S. C, in April, 1861. Counting House of Wes- 
ton & Bane. The consignment to Thorp & Co., of Boston. War 
talk. News from Charleston. Withdrawal from the Union. Pete 
and the dispatch. Adams' opinion. Pete and the champagne. 
Home of Mr. Weston. "For political reasons." The white slave. 
Will the slaves be free ? Some points from Herbert Lawson. The 
Loyal Heart. The proposition. The refusal. Adams in danger. 
The escape. 

ACT II — Confederate recruiting office at Burton. Jake decides 
to "go mit de war." Sutler's duties explained. Jake in trouble. 
A plot spoiled. Departure of Capt. Lawson and his Confederate 
company for the war. The sutler on hand. Nina's good-bye to 
the soldiers. 



ACT III — In the Union lines. "Mother's picture." Sam's oddi- 
ties. Lieut. Adams in camp. "Jimmy Brady, drunk as usual." 
Camp life. A song. Mail time. Brady's promise. An alarm. 
A darkey in trouble. The battle of Spottsylvania. The charge 
at the Bloody Angle. Battle Picture. Death of Capt. Lawson. 

ACT IV — After the fight. Lieut. Adams missing. A sutler's 
troubles. He wants a battle. He becomes a Yankee. A free 
woman. Jake goes out on his own hook. The Confederate Gen- 
eral and his prisoner. The sutler arrives. The drugged liquor. 
The escape. The search. On picket duty. Safe in the Union 
lines. "I save Sharlie Adams' life some more, ain't it." Died at 
his post. Tableaux. 

ACT V — The Rebel General a prisoner. Jake's promotion. 
Jake and his squad. The outpost. Lieut. Brady in command. 
Fall of Richmond announced. Arrival of the courier from the 
front. Lee's surrender. Three months after. Home of Col. and 
Mrs. Adams in New York State. Meeting of the members of the 
old firm of Weston & Bane. That consignment to Thorp & Co. 
heard from. Old friends. Happy family reunion. 



COSTUMES. 



ADAMS— Act I — Plain business suit. ActsIIIandIV — Infan- 
try Vol. Lieutenant's uniform. Act V.— Scene i, Colonel's uni- 
form ; Scene 3, Dress suit. 

MR. WESTON -Act 1— Business suit. Act II— Confederate 
Colonel's uniform. Act IV —Confederate General's uniform up 
to last scene of Act V, then civilian's suit similar to Act I. 

JAKE SCHMIDT -Act II— As Dutch as possible. Acts III and 
IV — Confederate blouse and cap. Act V — Scenes I, 2 and 3, 
Appropriate U. S. uniform ; Scene 4. Business suit. 

BANE — Nervous, middle-aged man. He never becomes a sol- 
dier. Acts I and II — Business suit. Act V — Scene 2, Traveling 
suit ; Scene 4, Dress suit. 

HAW — Act I — Business suit. Remainder Confederate Lieuten- 
ant's uniform. 

LAWSON — Act I — Business suit in scene 2 ; Scene 3, Dress 
suit ; uniform of Confederate Captain in remainder. 

PETE— Act I— Common suit. Acts III and IV— Ragged suit. 
Act V — Scenes 1 and 2, Blouse and cap ; Scene 3, White suit. 

The remainder of the characters in appropriate dress as may 
suggest itself in the play. 



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ACT I 



SCENE I — Plain chamber in j>. Decks C, R. and L. Char- 
lie Adams discovered seated at R. desk. Mr. Bane at C. 
desk. John Haw at 1*. desk. Music — " Way Down upon 
the Swanee River." 

Bane — Mr. Adams, what was the date of our last con- 
signment to Thorp &Co,, of Boston ? 

Adams — {Referring to the book.) February ioth, sir. 
Consignment of cotton in bale. 

Bane — (Rising-.) This talk about war is cursed in- 
convenient for us, just now. I only hope we will be able 
to hear from that consignment before any decisive steps 
are taken. 

Haw — ( Writing.) I don't believe there is going to be 
any war ; there's too much talk about it. 

Bane — (Comes down front.) That's where you are 
wrong, John. The talk is a sure prognostic. And then 
the trouble began long ago ; before you were born, I was 
going to say. I am sorry to say that my belief in this 
matter is well grounded . 

Haw — Well, for my part, I don't see anything to be 
sorry for. I just wish there was a war ; I'd go in a 
minute. 

Bane — Yes, that's just the way with young blood. Al- 
ways in for bloody battles, and banging guns, and brass 



6 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61. 

bands, and gore generally. But you don't take into con- 
sideration, John, the fact that the State would, under 
present circumstances, be fighting a power that would 
soon subdue her. {Goes back to desk, sits.) 

Haw — (Throws pen on desk and leans back.) O, pshaw ; 
all the Southern States would join us in less than no time. 
Or, if they'd only stand and look on we could whip the 
North. One Southerner can whip five Yankees any day. 

Adams — (Looking up.) What's that, John ? 

Haw — O well, I don't include you among the five, 
Charlie. I suppose that being born north of Mason and 
Dixon's line makes you a Northerner, by birth only, 
though, you don't profess to say that you are anything 
like that fellow that came around here last year selling 
clocks, and telling us all about "Skaowhegan" and"Ban- 
gaw,' in the State of Maine. You areas much of a 
Southerner as I am. 

Adams — {Lays down his pen.') I hope I am, John, as 
much of a Southerner as you are. I think I love the 
State of South Carolina as much as any man living, for it 
has been my home ever since I was a child ; and it would 
be strange if I did not love it. 

Bane — Well said, Mr. Adams. 

Haw — There ; that's just what I said ; if the State 
should secede, you'c 1 stick by her to the last. 

(Adams and Haw resume writing. Enter boy right with 
newspaper from Charleston, which he places on Bane's desk 
and exits right.) 

Bane — {Opening paper .) I feel uneasy about that last 
consignment. If they would only postpone hostilities un- 
til we get remittances, I should be under eternal ob — li — 
Hello I what's this I 

(Adams and Haw drop their pens and rise.) 

Bane — {Reads.) Major Anderson, with the U.S. forces 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 7 

under his command, has evacuated Fort Moultrie, and 
taken possession of Fort Sumter. 

Adams — That means something. 

Haw — It means business ! 

Bane — It means war ! The State has withdrawn from 
the Union. 

Adams and Haw — What ? 

Bane — {Rising. ) South Carolina has seceded ! 

(Adams sits down, places his arm 011 the desk, bows his head 
on his arm.) 

Haw — Seceded ! Hurrah ! 

Bane — John, I appreciate your devotion to the State, 
but I am afraid you don't know what secession really 
means. 

Haw — {Excitedly.) Yes I do, yes I do ; it means that 
South Carolina knows her rights as a State, and ain't 
afraid to say so. It means that as her sovereign rights 
are denied her by the Union she'll get them elsewhere. 
Hurrah for the plucky little Palmetto State. 

(Cheering in the distance.) 

Bane — Listen ; {Cheers heard.) I suppose they are 
cheering the news. {Sits at desk.) O dear ; O dear ! 
Well, I shall stick to my State, of course ; but I wish 
more prudent measures had been adopted. 

Haw — I don't ; it just suits me ! 

(Enter Pete 1. 2. with basket of champagne. He places bas- 
ket on floor front and takes off his hat.) 

Well, Pete, what brings you here ? 

Pete — I jess got some bottles o' truck heah fo' Marse 
Herbert. He done gwine to have a party to-night, and 
Marse Weston he done comin' home dis evenin'. Dats 
whatde' 'spatchum says. 



8 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Bane — How do you know Mr. Weston is coming to- 
night ? 

Pete — Why, de 'spatchum says so. 

Haw— The what ? 

Pete — De 'spatchum ; de 'spatchum ! 

Haw — What's a 'spatchum ? 

Pete — {Laughs.) You don't know what a 'spatchum 
is ? I bet Marse Bane knows what a 'spatchum is. 

Bane — No, I don't, Pete; you'll have to tell us. 

Pete — Well, for de land sakes, dar's ignomus for ye ; 
you know Marse Lawson — not ole Marse Lawson, but 
Marse Herbert, my marsa ? 

Bane — Yes ; yes; we know him. The superintendent 
of the Telegraph Office. 

Pete — Ad-zackly ; he done cotch something on de 
wires dat he write 011 a paper fo' you. Dat'sa 'spatchum. 

Haw — Oh, a telegraph dispatch ? 

Pete — Yes, dat's it, a 'spatchum. 

Bane — Well, where is it ? 

Pete — {Examines pockets.) O, I got him alright. Marse 
Bane, (Gives Bane dispatch.) I must get up to the house, 
I's a very 'portant part of that party jess now, an' if I 
don't get home wid dis yeah basket dey won't have much 
of a party, shu ; Good day, gemmen. {Exit with basket 
r.f. e.) 

Bane — {Examining telegram.) This is a cypher tele- 
gram. Mr. Adams, will you please get me the cypher 
book ? 

(Adams gets book, which he gives to Bane. Sits at desk.) 

Haw — (Closes ledger and comes to C.) Hang it ; I can't 
do any more work to day. Charlie, what do you think of 
the news ? 

Adams — It's like some horrible night- mare ; South 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61 9 

Carolina withdrawn from the Union ; can it be that our 
nation is in such deadly peril ? 

Haw — {Leans against his desk , I '.) Didn't you say, 
but a minute ago, that you loved the State as well as any 
one living ? 

Adams — So I do, John ; but I love the Union better 
still. {Rises and comes /.) South Carolina may become 
an independent State, but I shall live and die a citizen of 
the Union. 

Bane — (At desk c.) This telegram is from Charleston, 
from Mr. Weston. He will arrive here this evening, and 
will return to Charleston before day break in the morn- 
ing, by special train. From what I can make from the 
cypher, it has been decided by the State authorities to 
bombard Fort Sumter. 

Haw — Good ; that's the right way. 

Adams — {Approaching Haw.) The right way, John ; 
is it right to disgrace our government by rising in rebel- 
ion against it ? Is it right to tear down the flag of our 
Union and trample it in the dust ? I love the State of 
South Carolina as a man ought to love his home, but for 
her to fire. upon the flag of our country is worse than dis- 
honorable ; it is a disloyal and monstrous deed, and can 
only be the act of traitors . 

Haw— Traitors, Charlie? 

Adams — I said traitors. If there was a word in the 
English language with a stronger meaning, I would use 
it. It is a dastardly act ; it is the act of a viper that 
poisons with its venomous sting the hand that has nour- 
ished it. South Carolina may hoist the Palmetto flag as 
her emblem, but until the flag of the Union, the glorious 
stars and stripes, floats above it, I shall regard her as an 
outcast, traitorous State. 

(Music — Trem. till change of scene.) 



io THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Haw — So you side with our enemies ? 

Adams — I side with my country. My choice is made, 
if a choice must be made between loyalty and treason. I 
shall defend the honor of my country if it takes the last 
drop of my blood. {Takes from his breast a small Union 
flag.) This is my standard, and here I pledge again to 
my country, my life, my fortunes, and my sacred honor. 
(Close in street in 1.) 



Scene II — Street in front. Enter Haw r. Bane L. 

Bane — Are you going down to the office, John? 

Haw — Yes sir, before long. The streets in this part of 
the town seem quite deserted. 

Bane — Yes ; everybody is down to the telegraph office. 
{Crosses to I.) 

Haw — What do you think of Charlie's sentiments ? 

Bane — He's rash ; he's rash ; I very much fear he will 
get into trouble. I'm sorry, too. 

Haw — Yes, so am I. But I think now that he has 
been making up his mind for a long time. I shall advise 
him to keep silent, for his own sake. 

Bane — That's the best thing for him to do, no doubt ; 
but he is rash and hot-headed, like most young men. 

Haw — I think his words are treason to the State. He 
thinks the State is wrong, and if possible he would be- 
tray her. 

Bane — I don't believe, John, that Mr. Adams w r ould 
act otherwise than his conscience dictates. But he is 
strongly attached to the National Government. I must 
say I have a sort of respect for the old flag, myself. I 
served under Gen. Scott, in Mexico, with the stars and 
stripes for our standard. 

Haw — Well, I have sort of a liking for the flag itself; 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61. n 

but the government it represents has my hearty execra- 
tions. The Palmetto flag means more to me than the 
stars and stripes. 

Bane — John, if the Palmetto flag were to be taken to 
other parts of the world not one man in ten thousand 
would know what it was intended to represent ; the 
generality of men would imagine that it was the national ' 
emblem of some barbarous or half-civilized island in the 
Pacific. But in every nation in the wide world the Star 
Spangled Banner is known and respected. 

Haw — One would think that you were inclined to side 
with our oppressors. 

Bane— Then one would think wrong. No, John, I am 
a firm believer in the sovereign rights of the State, but I 
wish the State would not come to an open lupture with 
the Nation. I can't help liking the government ; I have 
lived under it all my life ; I have fought beneath its 
standard, and it has never done me or my State any harm. 
But the State has taken a direct issue with the National 
Government, and I must side with the State. 

Haw — Then you don't side with the State because you 
think she is right ? 

Bane — Wrong again, John. I do consider the State in 
the right, theoretically. But I must hasten home, Mr. 
Weston will be here this evening, and will return to 
Charleston early in the morning. You can go with him 
if you like. 

Haw — Thank you, thank you, sir. 

Bane — Oh, no thanks. Mr. Weston wishes either you 
or Mr. Adams to accompany him, but in view of the 
sentiments Mr. Adams expressed, I don't think it advis- 
able to send him. Be at the office by ten o'clock this 
evening, and we will be waiting for you. (Exit r.) 

Haw — That's good luck ; I'm to accompany Mr. Wes- 



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ton to Charleston. Well, I must be making tracks. If 
there is going to be any fighting there, I want to be on 
hand and see the fun Let's see, to-morrow will be Sun- 
day ; they won't bombard Fort Sumter to-morrow. Never 
mind ; I'll find some way to stay over and see the Yan- 
kees whipped. {Exit I.) 

(Music — Lively until Pete's on. Enter Pete 1. with basket of 
champagne whistling. Puts basket on ground.) 

Pete — Golly; ain't it hot; I 'spect dese yer baskets 
will kill me 'fore de party begins. Dis makes fo' baskets 
I'se toted to day. I'se gwin to take a rest, anyway. 
{Sits dozen c.) Dem white folks have easy times, nowa- 
days ; nuffin to do but jess set 'round and boss de nig- 
gers. Dar's gwin to be war down to Charleston — war wid 
de Yankees. Marse Herbert says all de Yankees is got 
horns on der heads. I seen a Yankee down to Charleston 
one day, but hedid't have no horns. I 'spect he was a 
muley. {Takes prepared bottle from basket, .) Dis is what 
white folks drinks ; Marse Herbert says it's Tom Paine ; 
no, dat aint it — Sam Pain. {Laughs.) Sam, how do you 
do ? Got him tied up with wire, too. I'm gwin to see 
what he looks like. I can tie him up again wid a piece 
o' fish line. {Whistles; takes knife from pocket and cuts 
wire. Cork pops and champagne froths.') Help; murder; 
help; stop thief ; help! {Stops and looks r. and I ; looks 
at bottle in his hand ; scratches head ; laughs.) I hope no- 
body heard me. Dat's a funny kind o' stuff to drink, 
frothing at de mouf dat way. It's fireworks, dat's what 
it is. Dat's de kind o' truck to drink when dar is gwine 
to be war. {Smells bottle.) Fo' de land sake ; does white 
folks drink dat 'splosive stuff? {Smells bottle.) Smells 
good, too. Well, if it's good fo' a white man it's good 
for de niggah. {Drinks facing r. e.) 



THE LOYAL HP:ART OF 1861. 13 

Herbert Lawson — {Enter /.) I believe that's that Pete. 
{Slaps him on the shoulder.) Here you rascal ! 

Pete — O, Marse Herbert, I didn't know it was loaded, 
'deed I didn't ; he done went off hisself . 

Herbert — So this is the way you do your errands, is it ? 
I send you with champagne to take home, and you stop 
and drink a bottle. But I caught you this time. 

Pete — Marse Herbert, 'fo de Ian' sake I didn't mean 
to. It done busted its boiler all by itself. 

Herbert — You pick up that basket and follow me ; I'm 
going to sell you. 

Pete — O, please don't sell me, Marse Herbert. 

Herbert — Yes, I will. I'll sell you to some one that's 
going to war, and will take you along with him. 

Pete — O, no, Marse Herbert, please dont ; I don't 
want to go to war ; I might get hurt. 

Herbert — And I'll tell him to make you take a gun 
and go right into the thickest of the fight, {Pete falls on 
his knees) and where the guns are banging and the bullets 
are flying around. 

Pete — {Crying.) O, Marse Herbert; no, no, no, no; 
I'll be a good boy ef you won't send me to the war to be 
killed. 

Herbert — Pick up your basket and come along. {Exit r.) 

Pete — {Gets up and takes basket?) Please don't, Marse 
Herbert, Please don't. {Exit r.) 

(Draw off street.) 



Scene III — C. D. Chamber in 3, backed with plain inter- 
ior. Table or stand at \,. Three chairs, tete and other 
indications of rich interior. Nina Weston sits at r. of 
table. Music, ' 'Beautiful Girl of the South . ' ' 
Nina — O, dear, this is such a tiresome life. The win- 
ter with all its gaieties has passed away, and everything 



i 4 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

is dull. Last summer we were at Saratoga ; we can't go 
there this year, "for political reasons," papa says. I 
don't see why these hateful politics always have to stand 
in the way of our enjoyments. If I want to go anywhere 
that papa don't want me to, or if I happen to want some- 
thing he don't want me to have, he refuses "for political 
reasons. ' ' Even the very servants have caught the phrase. 
This morning Jake refused to make a fire in the kitchen 
at Dinah's request "for political reasons." Then Dinah, 
to be even with him, refused to give him any breakfast 
"for political reasons." It's a wonder to me that the 
birds don't stop singing "for political reasons." {Takes 
letter from table.) Now here's a letter from papa ; he 
says {Reads.) "I will be home to-night, but must return 
to Charleston early in the morning 'for political reasons. ' ' 
{Throws letter on table.) O, how I do detest politics. I 
reckon if anyone wants to be mean and hateful, all he 
need do is to regulate his actions by "political reasons." 
{Music — Enter Harriet e. d.) O, Aunt Harriet, is that 
you ? Come and sit down here, and talk with me a little 
while. 

Harriet — {Sitting at r. of Nina.) I can't stay here long, 
Nina ; I must be over-looking the -servants right soon. 

Nina — Aunt Harriet, do you know it seems to me as if 
something dreadful was going to happen. Why is it that 
we must stay in Burton this summer, instead of going to 
Saratoga ? Do you know the reason ? 

Harriet — I do Nina. You must have heard the talk 
of war — war between South Carolina and the Union. 

Nina — O yes, I have heard all about that ; but I don't 
place any confidence in it. 

Harriet — You will place confidence in it soon enough, 
then. War has been declared by the State already. 

Nina — O, Aunt Harriet, that can't be true. 



THE LOYAL HRART OF 1S61 15 

Harriet — It is true, nevertheless. That is what keeps 
your father in Charleston so much of late. 

Nina — Isn't it horrible ; what is the cause of it ? 

Harriet — The cause of all the misfortunes of the South 
— the bitter curse of slavery. 

Nina — Why are you always so much opposed to slav- 
ery, .Aunt Harriet? 

Harriet — Ah, Nina, I have only too much reason to be 
opposed to it. There is a history connected with my life 
of which you little dream ; but you must learn it right 
soon. You will be sure to learn it, and I may as well tell 
you now . I would rather you would learn it from me 
than any one else. Look at me, Nina ; look in my face, 
in my eyes ; look at me closely. What do I look like ? 

Nina — {Kisses her.') You look just like my own good 
Aunt Harriet. 

Harriet — {Smiles.) Ah ; that is what I look like, eh ? 
Now tell me who I am, and in what way I am related to 
you. 

Nina — Why, you are papa's sister, are you not? 

Harriet — Nina, child, I know but one fact of my re- 
lation with your father. I know positively nothing of 
my parents ; I know nothing of my infancy. My earliest 
recollection is that one day, when I was a little child 
about ten years old, I was brought here to this house. 
You were then a sweet little babe, only a month old, and 
my sole care was to watch over you. You probably re- 
member the shadow that crossed our home when you 
were only six years of age ; your dear mother died, and 
with almost her last breath she told me to always take 
care of little Nina. 

Nina — I remember that, Aunt Harriet ; I remember it 
well. 

Harriet — I have remained here ever since. I knew 



16 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

you always thought me your father's sister, your own 
aunt. Your father probably never knew it, or he would 
have corrected your mistake. Nina, my relation to your 
father is the same as that of Dinah, in the kitchen ; I am 
his property, his slave. 

Nina — What ; O no ; Aunt Harriet, you can't be in 
earnest ; you are as white as I am ; you are not a negro ; 
how absurd. 

Harriet — It is the truth, Nina. It is claimed that there 
is negro blood in my veins. One drop of the blood of 
that race brings with it its curse. 

Nina — {Puts lier arms around Harriet's neck.) O, my 
dear Aunt Harriet; O how sorry I am; I wish you had 
not told me. 

Harriet — Does it make you love me any the less, Nina? 

Nina — No, No, but it makes me pity you, poor Auntie, 
O, what a curse slavery is. 

Harriet — You see now, Nina, why I am opposed to 
slavery. But that drop of African blood in my veins en- 
dears the whole race to me. 

Nina — How will the war affect the slaves, Aunt Harriet? 

Harriet — The war can have but one ending, and that 
will be the total abolition of slavery. (Music, — "Star 
Spangled Banner," pp. and trem. till Harriet is off.) 
America will then be truly ' 'The land of the Free. ' ' (rising) 
I see already the race freed from the fetters of slavery; 
no more overseers in the field, no more parting of husband 
and wife, of mother and child, no more shame and misery, 
no more bondage for the poor, oppressed race. (Clasps 
her hands and looks up.) O, God, bring the end and bring 
it speedily; (Exit c. d.) 

Nina — O, what a terrible thing slavery is; I never 
realized it before. And poor Aunt Harriet, a slave, the 
same as Dinah, and Jenny. Is it the truth or have I 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61. 17 

dreamed it? {Enter Mr Weston, c. d.) O, Papa; {rises and 
goes to Iiini.) 

Mr. Weston — Well, little girl; I'm back for a few hours, 
Why, tut, tut, tut, you've been crying. What's the 
matter? Won't Pompey get out the horses for you ? or has 
Harriet been scolding you ? 

Nina — ( Takes his hat and gloves.) Papa, is there going 
to be war ? 

Weston — Why, it begins to look like it. There will 
be war, unless the Government lets us go in peace. All 
that South Carolina, asks is to be let alone. (Oratori- 
cally.) In the present attitude of affairs, fellow -citizens — 

Nina — {Laughs.) Who are you talking to, papa ! 

Weston — {Confusedly.) Well, you see — I mean — well, 
the fact is — I have been making so many public speeches 
on the subject that I forgot where I was for the moment. 

Nina — Is that the way great speakers talk, papa ? 

Weston — Yes ; when they are addressing audiences. 

Nina — How nice ; {clasps her hands) please do it again, 
papa; {imitating) "In the present attitude of affairs, 
fellow citizens" — papa, what do you say next ? 

Weston — O, Nina, you are as mischievous as ever ; 
always teasing poor papa. {Both sit.) 

Nina — But, papa, when the war is over will the slaves 
all be free ? 

Weston — Why, child, what has put such an idea as 
that into your head ? It will be an extremely unlikely 
combination of events that will bring such an occur- 
rence to pass. 

Nina — What kind of combination of events, papa ? 

Weston — Well, for one thing, it would be necessary 
for all the Southern States — that is, all the slave -holding 
states, to join us in withdrawing from the Union. Then 
it would be necessarv for that Confederation of Seceding 



18 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

States to be conquered by the North. The North, being 
the victors would probably then emancipate our slaves. 
But you see the thing is very unlikely. 

Nina — But if the other Southern States should not join 
South Carolina, the United States would soon subdue 
her, papa. 

Weston — Perhaps, but they would not, in that case, 
abolish slavery in this state, and leave it in all the others ; 
and they would have no cause to abolish it in all the 
states. 

Nina — But suppose they should attempt to put down 
slavery in all the states ? What then ? {Music, plaintive, 
till Harriet is on.) 

Weston — In that case the entire South would unite, 
and would form a Confederation that would be uncon- 
querable. {Enter Harriet e. d.) Well, Harriet, you 
have been taking good care of my little girl ; she's all 
sunshine. But, by the way Nina, you've not told me 
yet the cause of those tears that I saw on your cheeks 
when I came in. {Nina glances at Harriet. Harriet 
places her finger on her lips.) You haven't told me which 
one of the boys to have whipped. 

Nina — I don't believe I want anyone whipped, papa. 
You couldn't understand what I was crying about if I 
should tell you. I w 7 as crying for — for — for — well, "for 
political reasons." 

Weston — {Laughs.) Well, you turned my own phrase 
on me that time, little puss. Is there anything wanting, 
Harriet ? 

Harriet — Young Mr Lawson would like to see you a 
few moments, sir, if you are disengaged. 

Weston — Young Lawson, eh ? Well, tell him to come 
here . ( E. vii Ha / 1'iet . ) 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 19 

Nina — Now, I think that is real mean. Why can't I 
have you an hour to myself? 

Weston — Well, my dear child, sometimes, you see, 
"for political reasons" — 

Nina — O, pshaw ; "for political reasons. ' ' {Exit 1 . 2.) 

Weston — I believe there must be something in that 
phrase that is offensive to Nina. She is a darling, just 
what her mother was at her age. This world would be 
cold and dark indeed to me without my child. 

Herbert — {Ate. d.) Are you alone, Mr. Weston 

Weston — Yes. entirely so. Come in 

Herbert — I excused myself from my friends at home 
purposely to see you, and my stay must be short. You 
are to raise volunteers in Burton for the state, I believe ? 

Weston — Yes, sir ; I have received a commission as 
Colonel, with the requisite authority to enlist a regiment, 
if necessary. Of course you are in the confidence of the 
Government ? 

Herbert — Certainly, certainly. My position as super- 
intendent of the telegraph office certifies as to that point. 
You are to return in the morning to Charleston, and, of 
course, will leave instructions with some one here to act 
under your directions. 

Weston — That's a good point. Thank you. Now, 
Mr. Lawson, who do you think would be the proper per- 
son for that business ? 

Herbert — What do you think of Mr Adams ? 

Weston — Mr. Adams is just the man, Mr Lawson. I 
was thinking of him as you spoke. But I must see him 
to-night. I expect either Mr. Adams or Mr. Haw will 
return with me. 

Herbert — Mr. Haw is rather young; but he is a young 
man of remarkably good principle. He will make a good 
man in time. 



20 THE LOYAL ^fg^T-PF 1861".^ 

Weston — I am very glad you called to-night, Mr. Law- 
son. Your ideas are good, and your heart is devoted to 
the state. 

Herbert — I hope it is, sir. You, of course, will see 
Mr. Adams before morning. 

Weston — Certainly, certainly. 

Harriet — {Ate. d.) Mr. Bane would like to see you a 
moment, sir, if you please. (Exit.) 

Weston — Excuse me a moment Mr. "Dawson. (Exit c. d.) 

Herbert — I think I have spoiled one match. Poor 
Adams. I have got into the papa's confidence, and if 
Adams sticks up to his principles, I shall gain Nina for 
my wife, yet. The only trouble is that she evidently 
loves Adams. O, well, the trumps are in my hand, and 
if I play the cards right I will win. 

Weston — (Outside.) This way, Mr. Bane. {Enter with 
Bane e. d. Bane I. Herbert c. Weston r.) Mr. Lawson, I 
believe, you know. We were just talking on the subject 
you mentioned. 

Herbert — About Mr. Adams. 

Mr. Weston — Yes, about Mr. Adams. Mr. Bane don't 
seem to think him the man for our purpose. 

Mr. Bane — O no, O no. He's too rash, too rash. He 
is too hot-headed, and has the wrong view of the question 
altogether. 

* Weston — You don't mean to say that he takes a Yankee 
view of affairs ? 

Bane — Well — yes. He inclines that way, I should say 
sir. 

Weston — Well, then he won't do at all. 

Herbert — I beg pardon, sir; but Mr. Bane seems to 
think he only inclines the wrong way. Now I would 
suggest, sir, that you come out decidedly with him ; 
make him the offer we spoke of, fair and square, and it 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 21 

may serve to turn his inclination in the right way. He 
is too valuable a man to lose without an effort to keep 
him. 

Weston — That is a good idea We will go down to 
the office now, and, doubtless, will see him. Mr Lawson, 
if you can leave your friends at half past nine for a while, 
we shall be glad to see you at the office. 

Herbert — I shall endeavor to do so ; but I must return 
now. Good evening, gentlemen. (Exit r. u.) 

Weston — {Getting gloves and hat.) Now, Bane, I 
guess we are ready. I want to get through as soon as 
possible, so I can get some sleep before I start in the 
morning. {Exeunt ) 

Nina — (At I. 2 e.) There it is again. Everybody 
seems to have more claim on papa than I have. I like 
Mr. Bane, but if he gets to carrying papa off before my 
very eyes in this way, I shall begin to consider him the 
Bane of my life. (Enters and sits at table.) O, dear, 
O, dear. And Herbert Lawson, too. I don't like him 
and I don't know why. (Enter Adams c. d.) O, Charlie, 
is it you ? 0,1 am so glad you have come ! Sit down 
now, like a good boy and tell me all about yourself, — 
where you've been for the last week, and why you've 
not called, and — 

Adams — (Sits r.) Now stop and take breath, Nina. 
Aunt Harriet said I should find you here. (Enter Har- 
riet and sits I.) Here she is herself. 

Nina — O, Charlie, only think ! Aunt Harriet — 

Harriet — Never mind, dear. Charlie knows my his- 
tory better than you do. 

Adams — ( To Harriet.) You have told her then ? 

Harriet — I have. 

Adams — Nina, your eyes have been opened to some of 
the horrors of slaveiy. That curse of our land. 



22 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Nina — It is a curse. It is horrible ! 

Adams — Can you wonder that I have made up my 
mind which side to take in the approaching conflict ? I 
shall fight for freedom, the freedom of an enslaved race. 

Nina — Charlie, you won't bear arms against the state, 
will you ? 

Adams — Nina, darling one, the cause I espouse is a 
sacred cause Our Union, our blessed country, is founded 
upon principles of freedom. The one dark stain upon 
our land is slavey, and the state is in arms to uphold 
that sin, to deepen that stain. If the state were right, I 
would be torn, limb from limb, before I would lift my 
hand against her ; but she is bringing war upon herself. 
Look upon Aunt Harriet, and see the embodiment of my 
cause, the cause of right against wrong, the cause of free- 
dom against slavery. 

Harriet— O, Heavenly Father, I thank thee for this 
Loyal Heart. 

Nina — Charlie, I feel that you are right. I do love 
our common country, and if you have determined to cast 
your fortunes with those of the Old Flag, you shall carry 
with you the prayers and love of your own Nina. You 
will always be to me the ideal of The Loyal Heart. 

(Enter Weston and Bane c. d.) 

Weston — Ah, Mr. Adams, we were on our way down 
street, hoping we might meet you ; but, seeing you com- 
ing in at the gate, we returned. I hope you are well ? 

Adams — Quite well, thank you. 

Weston — Mr. Adams, strange times have come to us 
in South Carolina. We have thrown off the yoke of the 
oppressive U. S. Government, and intend to — to — 

Bane — We intend to run a little nation of our own ; 
and Mr. Weston — 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861 23 

Weston — I have received authority to raise a troop of 

soldiers in Burton, and if you will — 

Bane — If you will boss the job, Mr. Weston will — 
Weston — I will procure you a good commission from 

the state, Mr. Adams. 

Nina at table, r. Harriet, 1. Bane near c. d. Weston, near 
Nina. Adams, c.) 

Adams — Mr. Weston, I esteem you highly, and am 
gratified by your proposal — 

Bane — {Rubbing- his hands.) He will accept ! 

Adams — But I must decline ; my sympathies are alto- 
gether with the U.S. Government. 

Weston — Then, sir, am I to understand that you are a 
traitor to the state ? 

(Music — Hurry till curtain.) 

Adams — you are to understand that while life remains 
I will fight for the salvation of my country, not for its 
destruction ! 

(Enter two officers.) 

Weston — Then, sir, I accuse you of disloyalty and 
treason to the Commonwealth of South Carolina. Offi- 
cers, do your duty. 

(Officers rush on Adams. He rushes by and out c. d. Officers 
rush after him. Nina and Harriet kneel. Tableau. Fast 
Curtain.) 



24 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61 



ACT II. 

SCENE I — Plain Chamber in j. Plain, dare fable e. , books, 
blanks, arm chair and stools. Pens and ink on table. 
Capt. Lawson discovered seated in chair at table, making 
out enlistment papers for recruit, who sits on stool by him. 
Fife and drum at I. u. e. playing il Dixie" as curtain 
rises. 

Lawson — (When "Dixie" ceases.} There; these blanks 
are ready for the Surgeon. Lieutenant ! 

Haw — (Enter I . u. e.) Yes, sir. 

Lawson — Go with this man to the Surgeon's office for 
examination (Exit Lieut. Haw and recruit, r. 2 e.) 
There, that fills my Company. I have done well for the 
past two or three weeks. Our cause is beginning already 
to assume gigantic proportions, and I shall be sure of 
promotion as time passes on. (Look off I. u e.) Here's 
the Colonel coining up the street. I suppose he is com- 
ing to make me a visit. He's a soft old fellow, but he 
has great influence with the Government. Egad, he need 
have, to have obtained a commission as Colonel. If the 
war lasts long enough, I expect to have as high a posi- 
tion myself. (Rises.) 

Weston — (Enter I. 1 e.) Good morning, Captain. I 
thought I would drop in for a few minutes this morning. 
How are you doing ? 

Lawson — Very well, Colonel, thank you. Won't you 
sit down ? 

Weston — No, I haven't time. How near is your roll 
completed ? 

Lawson — I just enlisted my last man a few minutes 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61. 25 

ago ; and if he passes the Surgeon my company will be 
full. 

Weston — Good, good ! I wish we had more such en- 
ergetic workers as you are. You will rank as Senior 
Captain, and will be in the direct line of promotion. 

Lawson — I am very much pleased with my First Lieu- 
tenant. 

Weston — O, young Haw ? Yes, he is a fine young 
man. You will be ready to leave for Charleston with 
your company at almost any time, I suppose ? 

Lawson — Yes, at any time after to day. 

Weston — Notify your men, then, to be in readiness by 
morning. I want you to be the first at regimental head- 
quarters. I will go with you to Charleston. Good 
morning. (Exit I. 2 e.) 

Lawson — So far, so good. My star seems to be in the 
ascendant. I wonder where Adams is now, nobody ap- 
pears to have seen him or heard of him since that memor- 
able Saturday night. (Sits at table.) Well, his absence 
don't worry me very much. 

(Laughter outside, 1. u. e.) 

Jake Schmidt— (Outside.) You don't told me ? Well, 
de Captain vas in he house, anyhow, und I find it out so. 
(Laughter.') You vas pooty shmart, but I tink I vas 
shoost so shmart as you. 

Lawson — There's the Dutchman again. 

Jake — (Enter I. u. e.) How you vas, Captain ? Dem 
fellers out on the sidewalk dey dink dey vas de whole 
State, ain't it ? 

Lawson — What's the matter, Jake ? 

Jake — Dem fellers w^ant me to go down by my shtore 
mid 'em, und shtand treat mit beer, und sausage, und 
krout, und cheese, und all dem dings. 



26 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Lawson — What do they want you to do that for ? 

Jake — Veil, dey say dey vas mit de Sout Carolina army 
and I must stand treats out of my shtore. (Sits.) Say, 
Captain, I guess I go mit de var. 

Haw — (Enter.) The man's all right, Captain. Here 
are the papers. Hello, Jake ? How do you do ! 

Jake — Pooty veil. How you vas do, yourself? 

Haw — O, all right. Don't you want to enlist. 

Jake — Don't I vant to exlist ? 

Haw — Enlist. Go in the army. Go to the war. 

Jake — Oh ! go mit de var ? Veil, yes, I go mit de var ; 
but I don't got shooted. Say, Captain, does fellows like 
you, captains, und dem fellers, have to go in mit de 
fight und got shooted maybe ? 

Lawson — Yes ; they are as likely to get hurt as anyone 
else. 

Jake — You don't told me ! Veil, I vas going to be one 
of dem fellers, but if dey got shooted too, I shoost guess 
I shtey at home, ain't it ? 

Lawson — So you expect to go to war and not get into 
any danger, eh ? 

Jake — You dink I vas a fool, dot I go where dere vas 
any danger ? It vas dangerous enough business for me 
dot I keep my lager beer shtore. 

Haw — O, well, Jake, you can get into some place in 
the army Where you won't be in any danger. You can 
get some high commission. 

Jake — I got me some high commissions, eh ? Veil, if 
its so high dot de bullets don't reach me, I take him. 

Lawson — You know Colonel Weston, Jake, don't you ? 

Jake — Of course I know Col. Weshton. I rent my 
shtore mit Weston & Bane, and I pay my rent to John 
here, more as a good many times a 'ready, ain't it John. 



THK LOYAL HEART OF r86i. 27 

Haw — Yes, that's so, Jake. The room you rent is 
owned by Weston & Bane, and I have often collected the 

rent. 

» 

Jake — And you never come in mitout I treat to beer, 
ain't it, John ? 

Haw — {Laughs. ) That's so too, Jake. 

Lawson — Well, Mr. Weston is Colonel of this regi- 
ment. Now I think, Jake, }^ou can get the appointment 
of Sutler to the regiment . 

Jake — Settler? I vas settled down in dis place more 
as a good many years already. 

Lawson — No, no ! Sutler ! To sell things to the 
boys ; to have a store in the regiment. 

Jake — You vas jokin' mit me, ain't it ? 

Haw — O, no, Jake ! That's the truth. You would 
make a good Sutler, too. 

Jake — You don't told me ? Veil, I guess I be a Sut- 
ler ; den I can sold sausage und crackers und cheese, 
und tobacco, und all dem dings, ain't it ? 

Lawson — Of course, and I expect you will charge 
enough for them, too. 

Jake — You don't told me ? Dot's good business ! 

Haw — For the regiment's sake, Captain, don't in- 
struct him in Sutler's tricks ! He will learn them fast 
enough. 

Jake — Yah, I learn 'em pooty quick. De sodgers dey 
sharge mit de enemy, und den I sharge, too, for de sau- 
sage, und tobacco, ain't it ? 

Lawson — Yes, you understand it well enough. 

Jake — {Rises and sits on table.') Say, Captain, you 
dink off I got a chance dot I sell beer, too ? 

Lawson — Yes, perhaps. The bo3^s will like beer, too, 
if they can get it. 



28 THE LOYAL HEART OF i86f. 

Jake — Den I go see de man dot sells me beer now, 
unc 1 we have a keg before de regiment goes mit de war. 

Haw — It's about noon, Captain, and our time for clos- 
ing till after dinner. 

Lawson — I suppose you know that we start lor Charles- 
ton in the morning. 

Jake — Veil, I don't can shtart in the morning. 

Lawson — O you can come along anytime in a week or 
two. You must see the Colonel first, and get yourself 
appointed as Sutler. 

Haw — Jake, can't you sing us a song ? 

Jake — (Laughs?) Veil, I don't know. I don't vas a 
pooty good singer. 

Haw — O, I've heard you sing many a time. Did you 
ever hear Jake sing, Captain ? 

Lawson — No, I never idid. Come, Jake, sing us 
something. 

Jake — Veil, I try a song (Song.) 

Lawson and Haw — Good, good ! 

Jake — O, you tink dot vas good, eh? You shoost vait 
till I vas a Sutler, den I sing more as a good many 
songs. 

Lawson — Well, we must go. (All exit r. j.) 



Scene II — Plain Chamber in 2, no furniture. Enter 
Colonel Weston r. 2, followed by Captain Lawson and 
Jake. 

Lawson — I can recommend this man as Sutler to our 
regiment, Colonel ; but I suppose, of course, you know 
him well enough without my recommendation. 

Jake — I dink myself I make a pooty good Sutler, ain't 
it ? 



THE LOYAL HEART OF t86i. 29 

Weston— It is neccessary that the officers of our regi- 
ment should be men of good position, and possessed of 
some influence. My officers so far are men of wealth and 
good standing. 

Jake — Dot's shoost vot I say. No man got any busi- 
ness dot he vas an officer mitout he keeps a shtore. Unci 
I vos got a pooty good shtanding too, ain't it ? 

Weston — It is gratifying to see the foreign element sid- 
ing with our cause, Captain. The State will stand in no 
danger when her cause is espoused by her adopted sons. 

Jake — By Chiminey ! He was going to 'dopt me. 

Lawson — It is indeed gratifying, sir. And I hope our 
friend will accompany us as our Sutler. 

Weston — O, he shall do so, by all means. {To Jake.) 
You will join us at Columbia, probably ; w r e shall leave 
for Charleston to-morrow. 

Jake — You don't told me ! Veil, I sell me out in de 
morning. Say, Colonel, you don't got mad if I send you 
a dozen bottles of Champagne to-night, ain't it ? 

Weston — Not very mad, Sutler, I assure you. 

Jake — Veil, I go me now. Und ven I vas Sutler den 
I — veil, I vas Sutler now 7 , ain't it ? {Exit r. 2.) 

Weston — Certainly. You may consider yourself as 
Sutler of our regiment. (To Lawson.) Well, the first 
blow has been struck for the independence of the State. 
The remaining Southern States will soon flock to our 
standard. 

Lawson — The report is that Lincoln has issued a call 
for troops. 

Weston — Fighting must be done, no doubt ; we can 
only gain our independence through blood. But all the 
State asks is to be let alone. But you must excuse me 
now : I have some business to attend to. Will you join 



3 o THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

the ladies in the sitting room ? You know the way. 
{Exit I.') 

Lawson — I must see Nina before I go. I suppose I 
shall find her in the sitting room. {Enter Nina r. / ) 
Ah, Miss Nina, I was just on my way to find you. 

Nina — And I have found you, instead. You leave for 
Charleston to-morrow, I understand. 

Lawson — Yes ; I take my company there in the morn- 
ing, and as soon as the regiment is complete we are to go 
to Columbia, I believe. 

Nina — I wish papa would stay at home. O, how I 
hate this war ! 

Lawson — I regret my departure, I assure you Miss 
Nina. Do vou know why ? 

Nina — How should I know ? 

Lawson — I will tell you ; I regret leaving behind me 
the only being I love. Nina, dearest, you are not blind 
to my devotion ? 

Nina — What ! Mr. Lawson ! You love me ? Im- 
possible ! 

Lawson — Why do you say it is impossible ? Is it 
possible for anyone to know you and not to love you ? 

Nina — Mr. Lawson, you must not speak so to me. I 
esteem you as a friend of my father, but I tell you frankly, 
my heart is not free. (Crosses to /.) 

Lawson — Nina, your heart is not given to anyone, is it ? 

Nina — It is best for you to know the truth, Mr. Law- 
son. My heart is given to one who is worthy of more 
than my best love. But if it were not so, I would not 
give it to one who was aiding and fighting for this wicked 
rebellion against the Union. 

Lawson — Miss Weston ! Is it possible ? Are you, 
then, so infatuated ? 

Nina— Sir ! 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 31 

Lawson — I can guess who it is. You are in love with 
that traitor, Adams. 

Nina — Silence, Mr. Lawson ! It does not become you 
to stand there in the uniform of a rebellious and traitor- 
ous State, and apply such epithets to a Loyal Heart. 

Lawson — I have finished, Miss Weston. But I hope 
to meet your lover, my rival, in battle, right soon too. 

Nina — I reckon it will be the worse for you if you do 
meet him, sir. {Exit /.) 

Lawson — Dished ! But I shall have my revenge, I 
shall have my revenge. I hope I shall meet him. O, 
what a fool I was, to think I could gain her so easily. 
Well, I shall get him out of the way yet, and then I hope 
I shall gain her. {Exit r.) 

Jake — {Enter r. 1 .) Veil, by Chimminy, dot shoost 
beats anyding, dot I can't find my way out of de house. 
I open more as a good many doors, and dey all goes into 
another rooms. Dot was too bad, ain't it ? I suppose I 
shoost shtay here till somebody lets me out. Und I don't 
can find any niggars, or anybody else dot can tell me how 
I can get me out on de shtreet. I vas got hungry too, 
und I shoost vish I had a glass of beer. I open me 
one door, and it vas a vindow, or else sompody move de 
steps avay. Den I opens anoder door und it was a ped- 
room ; den I find me another door und it vas a place dot 
I go up shtairs ; den vas a door dot vas a closet, and 
some dresses hanging up in it ; den I opens me anoder 
door, und by Chimminy, it vas locked. Now how vill I 
got out ? Here is anoder door ; I try dis one. (Exit I. 1 . ) 



Scene III. — Center Door Chamber at back, same as 
Act /, Scene III, with table in center, chairs at right and 
left of table. Enter Jake e. d. Pens and paper on table. 

Jake — Veil, I got a good joke on dis house, dot I don't 



32 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

can find my vay out. If any of de folks see me going 
'round dis vay, dey tink I was a bugler, don't it ? Veil, 
it vas too bad, dot's so, Und dot nigger dot I left in my 
lager beer shtore he shoost vill got drunk, und by Chim- 
miny gracious how vill I got out on de shtreet ? 

Nina — (Outside c. d.) Come into the sitting room, 
Aunt Harriet. 

Jake — By Chimminy gracious ! Dot vas a vomans, 
und if she sees me she'll shcream, dot's so. I shoost 
hide. {Gets under the table ) 

(Enter Nina and Harriet, c. d. Nina sits at r. of table Harriet 
sits at 1.) 

Jake — {Looking from under table.) Now how vill I got 
avay ? 

(N. B. — The cloth must be arranged on the table so as to fall 
low in the front, completely hiding Jake. End of table to 
audience. When Jake speaks, he puts up cloth enough to 
show his head, and drops it again, when he has spoken.) 

Nina — Now, Aunt Harriet, as we are alone, tell me 
about Charlie. 

(Captain Lawson appears at c. d. and stands just outside lis- 
tening.) 

Harriet — Charlie is hid by some of Wilson's slaves, in 
the woods back of the cabins. To-night a boat is to put 
out from Wilson's, and it will carry him, disguised, to a 
steamer that is going to Charleston. From there he can 
get North to Virginia, and will contrive in some way to 
cross the lines. 

Jake — {Looking out.) You don't told me ! Dot's 
good ! 

Nina — O, I am so glad ! Will you need any more 
more money for him, Aunt Harriet ? I have another 
hundred dollars, if he needs it. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 

Jake — Chi mm iny gracious ! Give it to me ! 

Harriet — No; we shall need' no more, Nina, lie is 
well supplied. 

Nina — I shall feel relieved after to-night. But now 1 
must find papa. O how I wish he would not fight in 
this wicked cause. 

(Captain Lawson disappears from c. d. Nina and Harriet 
rise, and Nina exit c. d.) 

Harriet — Preparations are still progressing for this 
wicked rebellion, I know not what is in store for me. 
Suppose Mr. Weston should be killed in battle, what 
would be my fate ? I shudder to think of it. How 
many like me have pondered these things ? How many, 
alas, how many, who were once as I am now, under a 
kind and noble hearted master, have been dragged down 
to infamy by a change to a brutal owner ? But I will die 
first ! O, my poor oppressed, enslaved race. A day is 
dawning for you Behind the black cloud of war and 
disaster shines the glorious sun of freedom ! Your 
shackles shall be stricken off, you shall be free ! And 
God grant me life to see the day. {Exit c. d.) 

Jake — Got in Himmel ! Dot's a shmart vomans ! 
{Starts from under table. ) 

Lawson — (Outside.) Nobody in, eh ? Well, tell the 
Colonel I wish to see him on important business. 

Jake — O, Chimminy ! Here vas anoder ! Now how 
vill I got out ! {Crawls back.) 

Lawson — (Enter e. d. and sits at L of table.) I have 
caught you now, Mr. Adams ; and you shall know that 
your own Nina betrayed you, but you shall not know 
how she did it. My lucky star is again rising. I shall 
have Nina Weston for my wife yet. I am glad that I 
had the good sense not to interrupt that little confidential 



34 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

chat. A person may get a good many little pieces of 
valuable information by keeping still. 

Weston — {Enter c d.) You wish to see me, the servant 
said, on important business. 

Lawson — Yes, sir ; on rather important business. But 
I will tell you what it is. 

Weston — {Sits at r. of table.) Proceed, Captain. 

L,awson — It concerns your former clerk, Mr. Adams. 
I have discovered his whereabouts ; but before taking 
any steps to capture him I thought it my duty to tell you 
and receive your orders. 

Weston — Well, I wish him no harm. I wish we could 
get him out of the way, — up North or somewhere. 

L,awson — But if he should get North, Colonel, he 
might carry some important information to the enemy. 

Weston — That's so ; perhaps we had better take him. 
How shall we do it ? 

Lawson — I will write a note to the officers who have 
been looking for him. The same ones who attempted to 
arrest him, and they can capture him to-night. 

Weston — Do so, write the note at once and I will 
sign it, 

Lawson — {Taking sheet of paper and pen, writing.} 
"Burton, S. C." — I can't write with this fine pen. I'll 
use a pencil. ( Tears sheet in two, and the half falls on the 
floor, fake puts out his hand and gets it. Captain Law- 
son takes other half of sheet and writes u ith pencil. ) ' ' Bur- 
ton, S. C— To Chief of Police : The traitor, Adams, 
who escaped the officers on the evening of the 13th of 
April, is now concealed in the woods back of Wilson's 
plantation on the Charleston road. An attempt will be 
made to convey him away to-night. I would recom- 
mend that a posse be sent to guard the woods and the 
bay." There, I think that will do. 






THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 35 

Weston — (Signs the paper .) Yes, very well. 

(Jake takes paper which fell on the floor and writes, in view 
of the audience. ) 

Lawson — (Folds note and puts it in an envelope.) Can 
you send this down to the police office, Colonel ? Have 
you a trusty servant who can take it ? 

Weston — Yes ; I will send Ben with it. I will go and 
find Ben myself. {Exit c. d.) 

Lawson — Now to direct it. Pshaw ! I've broken the 
point of my pencil. 

(Music, Pizzicato — till Weston is on.) 

(Takes knife from pocket, turns back to table, leaving letter 
on table. Sharpens pencil slowly. Jake gets up from under 
table at r. and takes letter from envelope and substitutes 
the note which he has written, and returns under table. 
Lawson turns back and seals the envelope and directs the 
letter.) 

Weston — (Enter e. d. with Ben.) Here is a boy, Cap- 
tain, give him the note and he will take it. 

Lawson — (Gives Ben the tetter.) You know where the 
police office is, do you, Ben ? 

Ben — Yes, sah. 

Lawson — Well, take that letter there and give it to the 
Chief of Police. Do you know him ? 

Ben — Yes ; Marse Roberts, ain't it ? 

Lawson — Yes ; Mr. Roberts. Just give him the letter 
and come back and tell Colonel Weston when you have 
given it to him. 

Ben — Yes, sah ; I'll do dat. (Exit e. d.) 

Weston — Captain Lawson, you are a worthy young 
officer. If you are as vigilant in active service as you 
are now you will rapidly gain promotion. 

Lawson — Thank you, Colonel. Such praise from your 
lips is praise indeed. I shall endeavor always to deserve 



36 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

your good opinion. {Rising.} But now I must go. I 
will be on hand early with my men. 

Weston — Everything is prepared. We shall leave at 
nine o'clock. {Exit with Captain Lawson c. d.) 

Jake — {Crawls from under table and comes f.) Now I 
was in a fix, ain't it ? I shoost write a note to de Sheef 
of Boleeses, dot I tink I send mit de Captain's letter, 
{takes letter from pocket) , und by Chimminy, I take dis 
letter out and forgot to put him in again. Now, I was 
in a fix, a 'ready. I must got out of dis house und den I 
go and give dis letter myself to de Sheef ; but how I vas 
get out. {Goes to c. d. and looks off r.) Hello ! {Comes 
back.} Here vas a young vomans. Veil, let her schream 
if she vants to. I don't got me under dat table again if I 
never finds the shtreet. 

Nina — (Enter c. d. ) I beg pardon. Were you waiting 
for my father ? 

Jake — {Aside.) Dot's de Colonel's girl. {To Nina .) 
No. I was waiting dot someone dells me how to got out 
on de shtreet. 

Nina — I will send a servant to show you out. {Moves 
toward c. d.) 

Jake — No ; shoost vait one minute. {Aside.) I shoost 
told her all about it. 

Nina — Can I do anything for you ? 

Jake — Yah ! You vas acquainted mit Mister Adams, 
ain't it ? 

Nina — Yes, sir, and what of it ? 

Jake — Nodings ; only he vas in danger. 

Nina — In danger ? How ? (Sits r. of table.) 

Jake — Veil, you shoost read dis letter und you find out 
how. {Gives her the letter.) 

Nina.— {Reads the letter.) What shall I do! (Rises 
and goes to c. d.) I must find Aunt Harriet. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 37 

Jake — Shtop a leetle ! Dot letter ain't gone to de 
Sheef of Boleeses yet. 

Nina — How did you come by it, sir ? 

Jake — You shoost sit down und I dell you all about it. 
{Nina sits.*) I vos got lost in dis house, und I don't can 
find my way out ; und I got me under dot table, und de 
Colonel and Captain Lawson, dey write dot letter to de 
Sheef. 

Nina — Ah ! Captain Lawson, eh ? 

Jake — Veil, you see, I was Sutler of your father's regi- 
ment, und I vas leave me my shtore mit a nigger a leetle 
vile, und I comes me here to see the Colonel — dot vas 
your father, ain't it ? 

Nina — Yes ; go on. 

Jake — Und de Captain he write dot letter und say he 
send it mit de Sheef, und I write a letter mit de Sheef, 
too, for to send a man to lock mine shtore. Und den ven 
de Captain he vas looking anoder vay, den I crawl me 
oui und I put my letter in de enfellop; und I take dis 
letter out und I forgot to put him back again. 

Nina— Good ! That's good ? 

Jake — Yah ; dot vas pooty good. But I must take 
dot letter to de Sheef myself. 

Nina — O, no ! Don't take it at all ; please do me this 
favor. Do you know Mr. Adams ? 

Jake — Yah ; I vas veil acquainted mit him. 

Nina — And you like him, don't you. 

Jake — Yah ; he vas a pooty good feller. 

Nina — Would you like to save his life ? 

Jake — Yah ; I save his life ven he vas in danger, if I 
don't got in danger mineself. 

Nina — If you should take this letter to the Chief of 
Police they would kill Mr. Adams. 

Jake — Y r ou don't told me ; den I don't take it, aint it? 



38 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Nina — O, you are a good man ! 

Jake — You was another ! Now, if you shoost show me 
how I can got out of de house — 

Nina — I will show you out myself. Come. {Exit e. d.) 
Jake — Dot vas a pooty gal, anyhow. {Exit e. d.) 

(Music, plaintive, till Harriet is on in next scene.) 



Scene IV. — Dark Stage. Street in /. Enter Bane and 
Harriet I. 

Bane — Here I must leave you. I am glad that our 
work has been accomplished, and that rash young man is 
on his way. 

Harriet — Ah, Mr. Bane, you have been a great aid to 
our plan. I expect to hear you advocating Union prin- 
ciples before long. 

Bane — I presume you will be disappointed in your ex- 
pectations, Harriet. I will follow where my State leads 
the way. What will Mr. Adams do when he gets to 
Charleston ? 

Harriet — He will go to Virginia, and will find some 
way to cross the lines. I was glad that you told him 
about Captain Lawson going to Charleston in the morn- 
ing. 

Bane — I hope I have not done wrong. But I do love 
that boy, Haniet, and I would do almost anything to 
save him. But he's rash and hot-headed. 

(Music, plaintive, till Harriet is off.) 

Harriet — Heaven will bless you, sir, and if the prayers 
af a poor slave can avail, you will be blessed in Heaven 
and earth for this night's work. But I must leave you 
now. Good night, sir, and God bless you. (Exit.) 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61. 



39 



Bane — Good night, Harriet. (Solus.) Good night, 
did I say ? It must be nearly morning. (Looks at watch ) 
No use of going to bed now. The sun will soon be up, 
and the volunteers under Captain Lawson will be march- 
ing through these deserted streets. O, dear ; I hopci for 
the best, but I shall fear for the worst unless the present 
Confederation is strengthened. (Exit I.) 
(Music, lively till change of scene. 

(Street draw off.) 



Scene V. — Stage Lighted. Landscape in j. Colonel 

Weston, Nina, Harriet, and several ladies and gentle- 
men at r. u. e. 

Weston — The Company will halt here when they come 
and will wait for the train. 

Nina — Is the Company filled, papa ? 

Weston — Yes ; the roll is completed. It will be the 
first Company in the regiment, and its Captain will be in 
direct line of promotion, being the senior Captain. (En- 
ter Bane r. u. e.) Ah, Mr. Bane, good morning. You 
have come to see the boys off, eh ? 

Bane — Yes ; I want to lend my countenance, such as 
it is, to the noble fellows who are to fight for their state. 

Nina — You are becoming quite a fire-eater, Mr. Bane ; 
I declare, I am almost afraid of you. 

Bane — (Botving to the ladies. ) The presence of so many 
fair upholders of the Palmetto flag is enough to make one 
patriotic on such an occasion. 

Harriet — I wonder when they will come. 

Bane — The)' were preparing to start as I left the office. 
(Drum in the distance.) Listen ; my ears are rather old, 
but I think I hear a drum. 



4o THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61. 

Nina — I'm sure I hear it. 
Weston — Here they come ! 

(Music, "The Girl I J eft Behind Me," till Jake on.) 

Chorus —Here they come ? Here they come ! 

(Enter Company, 1. u. e. in grey or butternut uniform, headed 
by fife and drums, Capt. Lawson, Lieut. Haw and Second 
Lieutenant. They stand on stage, from front to back, and 
face 1. after they are on, enter Jake, r. u. e. Captain Law- 
son gives necessary commands for forming them in posi- 
tion, which may be varied according to size of stage. 

Lawson — Parade, Rest ! 

Weston — Captain, you have a noble Company, and 
should be proud of it. I congratulate you and your 
officers. 

Lawson — I can assure you, sir, we are all proud of our 
Colonel. 

Jake — Coming/.) Und of our Sutler, too. 

Weston — I would like to say a w 7 ord to the boys, 
Captain. 

Lawson — Attention, Company. 

Weston — Men and Citizens of South Carolina : — We 
are about to leave our homes to engage in a conflict with 
a Government under which we have lived many years. 
But that Government has oppressed us, and we have 
thrown off its yoke. All South Carolina has asked is to 
be let alone, but the General Government will not permit 
us to withdraw in peace from the Union. Blood must be 
shed for our cause. Some of us may never return to our 
homes, but I believe we woulc 1 all be ready and willing 
to fight to the last, to maintain the rights of the State. 
Your names will stand in the archives of the State, never 
to be blotted out, as among the first who are ready to 
serve the State. You are the first Company in the regi- 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1N61. 41 

ment which I am to command. Be faithful and loyal 
and an honor to the name of South Carolina soldiers. 

Lawson — Boys, three cheers for our Colonel. Hip,, 
hip. 

Company — Hurrah ! Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 

Weston — Thank you, bovs. Now I propose three 
cheers for your Captain and Lieutenants, and let them be 
rousers. Hip, Hip. 

Company — Hurrah ? Hurrah ! Hurrah ! 

Lawson — I thank you men, for the compliment. 

Jake — Und now, boys, shoost give me tree cheers for 
the Sutler. Hip, Hip. 

Company — {Laughs.) Haw ! Haw ! Haw ! Haw ! 

Weston — Sutler, you are rather over stepping your 
bounds. 

Jake — You don't told me. {Aside.) I vonder vot 
he means by dot. 

Lawson — Have the ladies no word of good cheer for 
us ? I see the Colonel's daughter has she nothing to 
say to cheer the hearts of the brave boys ? 

Weston — ( Takes Nina by the hand and leads her for- 
ward.') Do say something, Nina, if it is only "God bless 
you, boys." 

Nina — Gentlemen, you wish me to say something ; 
some cheering words to you, before you depart to enter 
the field in warfare against the United States. My father 
is your Colonel. I see but few strange faces among you ; 
the most of you have been known to me from my in- 
fancy. God bless you, boys, and bring you all safely 
back to your homes, before you strike one blow against 
the Union. {Music, "Star Spangled Banner' pp. and 
trem. till curtain.) And may South Carolina return to 
her allegiance, with the Stars and Stripes for her stan- 
dard. 



42 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Weston — Such sentiments from the lips of my child ! 
Can it be possible ? 

Nina — I will add as my parting sentiment to you, my 
brave men, "The Union now, and the Union forever, 
one and indivisible." 

(The Company stands in silence at r. The ladies and gentle- 
men at 1., Nina c. of stage. Colonel Weston behind her, 
with hands to his eyes. Tableau and curtain. 



ACT III. 

Scene I. — Wood at back. "Boys in Blue" discovered 
seated at back on ground, some reading paper, two play- 
ing cards, one lighting pipe, one or two stretched ut oat 
full length. Eugene Ross and Sam Snicker f. Ross 
sitting on ground looking at photograph, and Sam look- 
ing over his shoulder. Music, " Yankee Doodle." 

Sam — Wall, I swan, but she is handsome. You say it 
is your mother ? 

Ross — Yes, my mother, Sam ; the best mother in the 
world, I think. 

Saw — Yew don't say so ; she's young lookin', tew. I 
hain't got no mother livin' naow, but my mother was a 
good one. She used to wollop me though, when I was 
little. (Stands up.) You hain't heard from her lately, 
have ye ? 

Ross — O, yes ; this picture came yesterday. 

Sam — Yew don't say so ! Wall, I suppose yew '11 be 
happy for another week to come, naow. 

Lieutenant Adams — (Enter r. 2 e.) Ah, Sam ; I was 
looking for you. 

Sam — Was ye ! Wal, I'm on hand, as the thumb said 
to the finger. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 4;, 

Adams — I would like you to do something for me, if 
ypu'r not too busy. 

Sam — All right, Lewtenant ; I'm useful ef I ain't or- 
namental, as the pig said to the peacock. 

Adams — If you will step around to my tent I will be 
there in a moment. 

Sam — I'm off as the bullet said to the gun. {Exit 
r 2 e ) 

Adams — Well, Genie, are you feeling as if you wanted 
to go into another fight ? 

Ross — Not very much, Lieutenant ; I can't say that I 
am fond of war. 

Adams — I'm not very fond of it myself. 

Ross — You knew father very well, didn't you ? 

Adams — Yes, I did. He was Captain of our Company 
when he was shot. 

Ross — At the battle of Fair Oaks. That's what made 
mother let me enlist in this regiment afterwards {Rises. ) 
I got a letter yesterday from mother and she sent me her 
photograph. 

Adams — Well, you must come around to my tent and 
tell me about it, and let me see the picture. 

Ross — How is Captain Gleason to-day ? 

iVdams — He is worse, Genie. I am afraid he will 
never recover. That is the cause of my wanting Sam. 
I want him to go over to the hospital, 

Ross — Poor fellow ! Well, I'll go with you now, if 
you are willing. 

Adams — All right, my boy. Come along. 

(Music, "Garryowen," till Brady on. Exit Sam and Ross 
r. 2 e. Enter Jinimie Brady, r. u. e., very drunk and stag- 
gering ; he comes to c. of stage.) 

First Soldier — (Rising.) Hello, boys, here's Jimmie 



44 THE I.OYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Brady ! {Others rise.) Say, Jimmie, give us a song, 
can't you ? 

Second Soldier — Yes, sing us a song, Jimmy. Come. 

All — A song ! A song ! 

Brady — I can't sing ; I have a cowld. 

First Soldier — O, never mind the cold. Give us a 
song. 

Brady — Well, then, I wont sing. 

Second Soldier — Birds that can sing and won't sing 
must be made to sing. 

Brady — Whoop ! I'm like a paycock — I'm a beauty, 
but I have no v'ice ! How'll you make a paycock sing ? 

First Soldier — O, come Jimmy. That's a good fellow; 
give us a song. 

All — Yes. Just one song, Jimmy. 

Brady — Well, then, I'll try wan song. {Sings. Time, 
li /oe Bowers") 

Come all ye thrue-born Irishmen, 

I hope ye will draw near, 
And pay your close attention 
To those words that you will hear 

O, I can't sing. I have a cowld. 

First Soldier — O, that's good enough, Jimmy. 

All — Plenty good. Try it over. 

Brady — O, lave me alone ! I have a bad cowld, I 
tell you. 

Second Soldier — Just try it once more, Jimmy. 

Brady — Well, I'll thry it wonce more, and if I can't 
sing it ye must lave me alone, now. Do ye mind ? 
{Sings.) 

Come all ye thrue-born Irishmen, 
I hope ye will draw near 

And then shtand back. I can't sing ; I have a cowld ; 
and I won't sing. I have me reasons. Whoop ! I'll 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 45 

fight the whole of ye's, ye spalpheens ; two be two. 
(Most of the soldiers sit down. ) 

First Soldier — Well, come, sit clown with us, Jimmy , 
or you may get into the guard house. 

Brady — That's where I spend the most of me time, 
anyway. Whoop ! "Jimmy Brady, dhrunk as usual," 
as the Captain says. (Goes to back and sits.) 

First Soldier — (Looding- off r. u. e.) Hello, boys ! 
There's the mail. (Rushes off r. u. e.) 

All — Mail ! Letters ! {Exeunt omnes r. u. e., leaving 
Brady .) 

Brady — Mail, if it was a male o' vittles, begorry I'd go 
along wid 'em. 

Ross — (Enter /, 2 c.) Hello, Jimmy ; is that you ? 

Brady — It's me, drunk as usual, me boy. (Rises and 
comes to c.) 

Ross — O, how sorry I am to see you drunk again, 
Jimmy ! I wish you wouldn't. And you such a good 
friend to father. 

Brady — Don't talk that way, Eugene. Your father 
was a friend to me — not me to him. 

Ross — Jimmey, you don't know how bad it makes me 
feel to see you in this condition. Why, don't you let 
whisky alone ; if not for your own sake, for the sake of 
your friends ? 

Brady — I have no friends to be plazed or displazed wid 
me conduct, so I'll go to the devil wid drink if I plaze. 

Ross — But you have friends, Jimmy. Father used to 
write home about you, and how you took care of him 
once when he was wounded. 

Brady — O, don't talk about that. Lave me alone. 

Ross — And mother and I used to often talk about good 
Jimmy Brady ; and after I enlisted I told her I would 



46 THE LOYAL HEART OF i86r. 

write to her about you. O, Jimmy, do quit drinking, 
won't you. 

Brady — Begorry, Eugene, ye've touched me heart ! 
Ye've kissed the blarney shtone, ye have. {Crying.) 
And so you and your mother used to talk about Jimmy 
Brady ? Well, I'll try and lave it alone for your sake, 
Eugene. 

Ross— Thank you, thank you, Jimmy. 

Brady — But it's such a seductive crachure, it is But 
I'll lave it alone, if I can. 

Ross — O, you can, Jimmy. Let's shake hands. 

Brady — {Giving Ross his hand ) Eugene, you've done 
more than anyone else can do wid me. I'll not drink 
the poison again. 

Ross — O, Jimmy ! May I tell Lieutenant Adams of 
that promise ? 

Brady — Tell who you plaze, I'm done wid it. It 
killed me father, and I was try in' to get revinge on it, 
but, begorry, I'll give it up. {Exit r. 2.) 



Scene II — \\ r oods in 2. Occasional shot behind scenes, 
but not to interfere with dialogue. Enter Pete from I. 2 , 
frightened. 

Pete — For the Ian' sake ! Dis is what white folks call 
war ! I jess wish Marse Herbert had left me at home ! 
I can't do any good yeah ! Now, which way is de Yan- 
kees ! Dey's coming some way, wid deir blue buttons 
an' brass coats on, an' horns on der heads ! For de Ian' 
sakes ! Here's one now ! 

Brady — {Enter r \ 2 with gun .) What are you doin' 
here, nager ? 

Pete — Don't shoot me, Marse, don't shoot me. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 47 

Brady — Well, who the devil wants to shoot you ; what 
do you want ? 

Pete — Which way is de Yankees, Marse ? 

Brady — The Yankees, is it, ye want ? Begorry, I'm 
Yankee enough for you. 

Pete — O, don't kill me, Marsa ! 

Brady — You come wid me ye dirty nager ; come wid 
me. 

(Pete falls on his knees, Brady takes him by the collar and 
drags him off r. Enter Adams with company of Union sol- 
diers. Bugle, and drums long roll offstage at r.) 

Adams — {Entering r. /'.) Double quick ! March ! 

(All double quick r. to 1. Exit 1.) 

Brady — {Enter r.) Begorry, I'll catch them. {Exit I.) 



Scene III. — Wood at back same as in fast scene. No 
change of scenery in any way . The stage must be open 
to the back of the stage, leaving two pieces of scenery in. 

(The argument of the battle to be followed is : There is fir- 
ing on the picket line at 1. of stage. Adams and his men 
double quick to the rescue. The Confederates drive them 
back across the stage. The Union troops under Lieutenant 
retreat firing. Adams does not appear. He is supposed 
to have been taken prisoner. As soon as Union troops have 
disappeared inside wings r. of stage, Rebel troops advance 
firing, and having reached c. of stage begin to fall back. 
As soon as time has been given for troops to retire within 
the wings and face about and form, cheers from Union side 
are heard and Rebel yell from Confederates. Officers on 
both sides give orders loud: "Forward, double quick! 
Charge !" Both lines meet in c. of stage and form tableau, 
with guns clubbed and in other positions threatening each 
other. The Rebel flag is borne by the tallest man on Con- 
federate side, near the center of line. Captain Lawson on 



48 THE LOYAL HEART OF j86i. 

the flank of the Confederates nearest front of stage, on one 
knee, sabre raised to protect his head. Jiunnie Brady in 
front of him has the muzzle of his gun at Lawson's breast 
as though he had bayoneted him. The orchestra plays 
"Battle Cry of Freedom" from the time Adams orders, 
"Forward, double quick ! March !" till the tableau is 
formed, when, at a signal the scene at rear of stage is drawn 
and discloses on platform, representing a rise of ground or 
rocks, a Color Sergeant with Stars and Stripes and two 
members of Color Guard. Pin the flag back against scene 
back of Color Guard, as though it were waving. One mem- 
ber of Color Guard on his knee, a little in advance of Color 
Sergeant, and on side nearest to audience, aiming toward 
Rebel line ; the other a little behind him and between the 
scenery to which he fl^g is pinned and the Color Sergeant 
and aiming toward Rebel lines. At the signal which 
opens the scene orchestra changes to "Star Spangled Ban- 
ner." If the appreciation of the audience warrants it the 
figures in the tableau should retain their places so that the 
curtain may be raised a second time on the tableau. If it 
is decided not to raise the curtain the second time the 
stage should be cleared instantly of all except Captain 
Lawsou and three or four dead soldiers, some of each side. 
Then the curtain should be raised at once.) 



SCENE IV. — Firing has ceased. Enter two soldiers with 
stretcher, pick up woimded soldier on stretcher and carry 
him away r. u. e. 

(Then re-enter with Pete leading, carrying lantern, and goes 
from soldier to soldier, apparently looking for someone, 
until he hears Lawson calling for water. When he begins to 
speak, soldiers with stretcher come down to front and 
form the final tableau of the act.) 

Lawson — O, give me water ; for the love of heaven, 
give me water. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 49 

Pete — Fo' de Ian' sakes ! If hea' ain't Marse Herbert ' 
(K?ieels by him.) Marse Herbert. 

Lawson — O, Pete, is it you ? Give me some water. 
(Gives him drink from canteen .) Is ye hurt bad, Marse 
Herbert? 

Lawson — I am dying, Pete. 

Pete — O, no ; Marse Herbert. O, no ; you'll get well. 
(Music, plaintive, pp., till curtain.) 

Lawson — No, Pete, I feel it coming now. It is so 
very^ — very cold and dark ! You've been a good boy to 
me, Pete, and I wish to set you free. Go north, Pete, 
and be free. Good bye. (Dies.) 

Pete — May de good Lo'd take his soul. 

(Soldiers stand back of him. Pete kneeling by his side. 
Slow curtain.) 



ACT IV 



Scene I. — Wood in front. Enter Ross and Sam, r. 2. 
Sam r., Ross /. 

Ross — I noticed that the Lieutenant was missing early 
in the fight, Sam, and I supposed he was shot. 

Sam — O, no ! Bless you no ! I saw him myself get 
right square among the Johnnies and they jest took him 
right along with them. 

Ross — Well, I feel relieved to think he is not killed. 
But he may be worse treated in some prison pen than we 
can have any idea of. 

Brady — (Enter r. 2.) Good mornin', boys, do you 
know anything about the Leftenant ? 



5 o THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Ross — Sam says he saw him taken prisoner. 

Sam — Yes, they gobbled him up, just like a chicken 
would gobble up a grass hopper. 

Brady — Well, begorry, he's in a bad place, then. But 
I'm glad he ain't kilt, so I am. 

Sam — Where air you goin ' , Brady ? 

Brady — Jest beyant the woods there, to find some fresh 
'baccy. I'll see ye when I come back. {Exit r.) 

Sam — That's a smart Irishman, if he'd only let whisky 
alone. See haow bright and smart he is this mornin'. 

Ross — I don't believe you'll ever see him drunk again. 
He quit drinking. 

Sam — Yew don't say so ; well, do tell. 

Jake — {Outside /.) You shoost leaf me alone ! You 
vasn't a Yankee ! 

Brady — {Enter I., dragging Jake. Stands between Sam 
and Ross.") Begorry I'm a full-blooded Yankee. 

Jake — You vas a liar ! You vas an Irisher. 

Sam — What's that yew've caught, Brady ? 

Brady — It's one o' the Johnnie Rebs, and he says he's 
looking for a Yankee. 

Ross — Who are you, and what are you doing here ? 

Jake — I vas a Sutler mit de Sout' Ker'lina Army, und 
dem Sout' Ker'lina Rebels, by Chimminy, dey make me 
mad. Dey shteal my tobacco und mine sausage, und 
dey don't pay me one dollar. 

Sam — Wal, yew don't expect us tew collect it for ye, 
dew ye ? 

Jake — By gracious, I don't can collect anyding. Und 
de battle yesterday ! Dey shoost shooted into my wagon , 
und by Chimminy, de sausage und tobacco und ebery 
t'ing vas shoost shooted avay. Und I most got shooted 
myself. 

Brady — {Laughs.') — Ye have bad luck, Dutchy. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861 51 

Jake — Vot's de matter mit you, Irisher ? It's better 
you don't laugh too much. 

Ross — Well, we're sorry for you, Sutler. But what 
are you doing inside the Union lines ? 

Jake — I shoost vant you fellers to have a battle in it 
dem Rebels dot shteal my sausage und tobacco. Shoost 
lick dem like de dyvil. 

Sam — Wal, ain't he cheeky ! 

Brady — If you want your rebels whipped, go and whip 
them yourself! 

Jake — Veil, by Chimminy, shoost give me a gun, und 
I go und haf a battle mit 'em anyhow. 

Sam — Say, if yew want tew fight the rebels, why 
don't yew enlist in our army? Then yew can get a 
whack at 'em. 

Brady — Yes, that's the way ! Fhy don't you 'list ? 

Jake — You don't told me ! Veil, by Chimminy, I do it? 

Pete— {Enter /.) Hello, Marse Brady ? 

Brady — Here's that nager agin, His name is Pater. 
Come here Pater. 

Pete — {Comes to c.) Well, fo' de Ian' sake! Ef dat 
ain't de Sutler ! 

Jake — Hello, Pete ! Dot vas you, eh? 

Brady — Pater, do you know this foreigner ? 

Pete — Dat's Marse Colonel's Sutler. Did you know 
Marse Herbert was killed in de fight ? 

Jake — You don't told me ! Dot's too bad. 

Sam — Wal, I wish we could trade off this Sutler for 
aour Lieutenant. 

Brady — Begorry, Lieutenant Adams is worth a million 
such fellows. 

Jake — Who vas Lieutenant Adams ? 

Ross — He was in command of our Company, but was 
captured by the Rebels, yesterday. 



52 THE LOYAL, HEART OF 1861. 

Jake — You don't told me ! I knowed a feller by the 
name of Adams in Sout' Ker'lina. 

Brady — That's where the Lieutenant lived before the 
war. 

Jake — You don't told me ; you vas acquainted mit 
him, Pete, ain't it ? 

Ross — Our Lieutenant's name is Charlie Adams, and 
he lived in a place not very far from Charleston. 

Jake — Und dat place vas called Burton, ain't it ? 

Ross — Yes, Burton, that's the place. 

Jake — Veil, it vas de same feller. I saved his life, so 
he could got Nort' ? 

Brady — Dutchy, if I thought you wasn't lyin' I'd shake 
hands wid ye. 

Jake — Who you vas call lying ? You vas anoder ! I 
save Sharley Adams' life ven dey vas write to de Sheef 
of Boleeses dot de niggers vas goin' to got him away so 
he could got Nort'. 

Ross — You saved his life, eh ? I will shake hands 
with you ! {Shakes hands.') 

Sam — Wal, I swan ? Here's my hand, ye darned 
rebel, ve. {Shakes.) 

Brady — Dutchy, I ax yer pardon. Give us your fisht ! 
If anyone wants to fight you, call out for Jimmy Brady. 

Jake — Veil, I go mit de Yankees. You vas bully fel- 
lers, anyhow, ain't it ? Und ven I see dem Sout' Caro- 
lina rebels in de battle, by Chimminy, I shoost shoot 'em 
like de dyvil ! I go me now, und I enlist mit you Yan- 
kees. Say, Pete, how you like de Yankees ? Pooty 
veil, eh ? 

Pete — Yes, sah ; dey hain't got no horns on deir heads, 
an' dey don't eat darkies. {Laughs.") I ain't afraid of 
Yankees. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 53 

Ross — Well, if this man wants to enlist, lets go to 
headquarters. Come along boys. {Exit I.) 

Sam — Wal, we might as well, I suppose. 

Jake — Vel, I go mit you Yankee fellers. {Exit Sam 
atid fake r.) 

Brady — Now, Pater, we'll go, but we won't go to 
headquarters. We'll go to my quarters insthead, and 
have a pipe of 'baccy, if it's convaninent. 

(Music, Plaintive, till Harriet on. Exit Brady and Pete r.) 

Harriet — {Enter I.) Thank Heaven, I am free ! Free 
at last ! A kind providence has guided my steps thus 
far, and now, that I am within the Union lines I can feel 
for the first time in my life, that I am no more a slave. 
But, my poor Nina, I have not seen her for nearly six 
months, now. She is a brave girl, and I hope to see her 
again under the Old Flag. I wonder w 7 here Charlie 
Adams can be. I know he is in the Union army ; I wish 
I could discover his whereabouts. I must see the Union 
General and inform him of General Weston's contem- 
plated attack. {Distant bugle call at r.) I hear a bugle. 
That sound must come from a Union camp. That is 
where I must go first. {Exit r.) 

(Enter Jake r. 1 e. ) 

Jake — Veil, by Chimminy ! I vas a Yankee, ain't it ? 
Und I vas going to have some new clothes. Dot Adams 
feller he vas mit de Rebels now, und I vas mit de Yan- 
kees. If I could only got ahold of him once I shoost 
save his life again, ain't it? Now 7 dot Rebel Cheneral 
Weshton, he t'ink he vas shoost goin' to vip de Yankees. 
He don't know dot I vas a Yankee himself. {Music. 
fake's song. Song may be introduced here if wanted. ) 
Now I shoost vonder how de Rebels was doin' mit Shar- 
lie Adams. By Chimminy ! If I only go over dere und 



54 THE I,OYAL HEART OF 1861. 

find it out! Dot's shoost vat I do. Und maybe I do 
some good mit dat Adams feller. Und I shoost lick 
some of dose Rebels dot shteal mine sausage und dings. 
Dot makes up my mind ; I vas a Yankee, und I can 
shoost lick dem all. Hold on, now! I fool 'em ! I vas 
a Yankee, und I make dem t'ink I vas a Rebel, ain't it? 
Dot's goot business! I go shoost de same vay dot I 
came. {Exit I.) 



Scene II. — L a n d scape a t ba ck . Tent n stage . A Sen - 
try in gray an [for 111 with gun at r. and one at t . pacing 
up and down stage. Genera/ Weston seated at tabic c. 
Adjutant Haw at r. of table facing General Weston. 
Papers, pens and ink on table. 

Weston — You will please inform these officers, Adjut- 
ant, that a strict observance of these rules is commanded. 
Prisoners have frequently escaped us, and the most valu- 
able member of my household has escaped in the same 
way, and only last night. 

Haw — Very well, General. {Salutes and turns to go 
off r. u. e.) 

Weston— Oh, Adjutant ! 

Haw — {Turning back .) Sir? 

Weston — Send the prisoner, Adams, to me. 

Haw — Yes, sir. {Salutes and exits r. u. e.) 

Weston — This last fight is not so successful as I im- 
agined it would be. These Northern men are of stub- 
born material, and they actually don't know when to 
give in. I wish that Adams had not acted so foolishly 
when I made him the offer of a commission at the begin- 
ning of the war. I will try him again. I need some one 
of his stamp, now that Lawson is killed. Advices from 



THE LOYAL HEART OF i«S6i. 55 

the West are not encouraging either. But our Confeder- 
ation must succeed in the end, no doubt, {/infer Adams 
followed by a guard '.) Well, Lieutenant, you are feeling 
well this morning, I hope. 

Adams — (At r. of table,) Quite well, General, thank 
you. (Guard stands at r. u. r.) 

Weston —I have detained you here for purely personal 
reasons, Lieutenant, and did not send you to the rear. 

Adams — From what I have learned of the horrors of 
your prison-pens, General, I presume I have great occa- 
sion to be thankful for your kindness. 

Weston — You are sarcastic, sir. But I suppose that 
our treatment of prisoners has been very much exagger- 
ated in the North. But that is not the subject I wish to 
talk about. 

Adams — Nor do I wish to speak of it, sir ; the thought 
of it is sufficient to make my blood boil with indignation. 

Weston — I presume, sir, you recollect a proposal I 
made once to you, at the beginning of the war, in Bur- 
ton. 

Adams — I do, sir ; and I recollect that you had officers 
within call to arrest me on the charge of treason, in case 
I refused. 

Weston — Lieutenant Adams, you see how the conflict 
is waging — how the current seems to flow in our direc- 
tion. The Confederacy is recognized by other powers 
and we will certainly win at last. 

Adams — If your object in sending for me is to talk 
upon that question, you may as well send me back, Gen. 
Weston. The fortunes of war may favor your cause for 
awhile, but that you will certainly win at last is some- 
thing I do not believe. 

Weston — I am inclined to think you rejected my offer 
from a mistaken idea of duty, and am willing to give you 



56 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

another chance, and an opportunity to attain eminence 
in our service. 

Adams — Sir, you may spare your words ; I see what 
you wish, and do not want to talk upon the subject any 
more. I am a Union man, I believe this to be a wicked 
rebellion, that should be suppressed at all hazzards. Even 
should it prove successful, I would a thousand times 
rather starve in your most horrible prison pen than hold 
the highest honors such a traitorous Confederation could 
bestow . 

Weston — {Rises ) You are a very bold young man, 
sir. I will not accept any reply from you until you have 
time for consideration. 

Adams — Sir ! Again this insult ! 

Weston — Well, well, never mind ! You will think 
different yet. 

Jake — {Enter r. u. e.) Dot's shoost vot I say. You 
tink different yet, ain't it. 

Weston — Why, Sutler is that you ? 

Jake — Who you dink it vas, Cheneral Weshton ? 
Maybe you dink I vas a Yankee, don't it ? 

Weston — Well, we thought you were lost, or shot, 
maybe. Where have you been ? 

Jake — I vas been a prisoner, but I vas got avay, by 
Chimminy ! 

Adams — {To Jake.') Isn't your name Jake Schmidt? 

Jake — Dot vas de firsht letter of my name. But I 
don't know who you vas, ain't it ? 

Adams — You used to know me in Burton. Have you 
forgotten Charlie Adams ? 

Jake — Sharlie Adams ! Say, Cheneral, dot vas dot 
Yankee feller dot was in mit you and Mishter Bane, 
don't it? 

Weston — Yes, that is the same man, there. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 57 

Jake — You don't told me ? You vas Sharlie AdauiSj 
eh? You vas sorry you vas a Yankee, ain't it? 

Adams — Not so very sorry, Jake. 

Weston — {Going toward I. u. e.) Guard remove the 
prisoner and see that he is well treated. 

Jake — Hold on, Cheneral ! I shoost like shoost a 
minute dot I talk mit Mr. Adams about somedings in 
Burton. {During Jake* s last speech guard goes to Adams 
and puts hand on shoulder . They start toward r. u. c.) 

Weston — Very well, guard, let the Sutler have a few 
words with the prisoner, and after he has finished, re- 
move him and report. {Exit I. u . e.) 

Adams — You appear to be a privileged character, Jake. 

Jake — Veil, I pay pooty high for my prixaleges, too, 
sometimes. {Takes flask from pocket .) Say, dere don't 
vas anyding mean about me. If you vas a Yankee, 
shoost try some of dis. 

Adams — {Takes bottle ) I am not a drinking man, 
Jake, but I will not refuse your good fellowship. {Drinks 
and hands flask to Jake.") 

Jake — Veil, here vas gesundheit. {Drinks, puts flask 
in Adams hand, and whispers) Hide it, quick ! 

(Adams hides flask under his coat, while Jake, facing audi- 
ence, back to Rebels, takes from out his pocket another 
flash.) 

Guard — Don't be stingy, sutler. 

Jake — I don't vas stingy. You und de oder boys 
shoost drink all of dis. {Gives guard the flask.) 

(Guard drinks and gives flask to sentry at r. , then sentry at 1., 
then finishes the flask himself.) 

Guard — That's good liquor, boys. (Sits at back. ) 
Sentry — {At r.) You're right ; it is. 
Jake — Yes, dot's pooty good liquor. 



58 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Guard — Well, hurry up with the prisoner. Sutler. 

Jake — You vas in a hurry, ain't it? Veil, maybe I 
got some more bottles in a little vile. 

Adams — Did you want to talk to me, Jake, or did you 
just want to give me a drink? 

Jake — I shoost vant to shpeak mit you a little. You 
know dot young mans dot vas mit de telegraph in Bur- 
ton ? 

Adams — Young Lawson ? 
(Stage gradually darkened.) 

Jake — Dot's de feller ? Veil, he vas killed in de fight. 

Adams — Is that so ? 

Jake — Dot's so, by Chimminy ! Und de fight vas 
shoost break me all up. My sausage und tobacco vas 
all shooted avay, too ! Und all de resht vas shtolen ! 

Adams — That's too bad ! But Jake, I am getting 
tired, and the evenings are getting chilly. I shall have 
to return, I expect. 

(Guard sits at table and leans bead on table, asleep. Sentinels 
pace slowly, and stagger a little.) 

Jake — You don't told me ? It's better dot you vait a 
little vile, I vas goin' to told you somedings pooty soon. 
(Music, Pizzicato, till rebs are on in next scene.) 

Adams — {Takes bottle from poeket.) Here is your 
liquor, Jake ; I hardly ever use the stuff. 

(Sentry at r. lies down near r. u. e., and sleeps.) 

Jake — (Takes flask.) Veil, I take him now. I shoost 
take a little drink, too. 

(Drinks. Sentry at 1. lies down near 1. u. e. and sleeps.) 

Adams — I thank you, Jake, for your kind attention, 

but I am feeling chilly and if the Guard {turn around.) 

Why, what does this mean ? 



THE LOYAL HEART OF t86i. 59 

Jake — Vat it means ? I told you vat it means ! It 
means dot ve got to run for it. 

Adams — To run ; where ? Explain yourself ! 

Jake — Dis vas no time to explain ! Ve can got to de 
Union army if ve go now ! 

Adams — To the Union army ! Can I trust you ? 

Jake — I bet a dollar you can trust me. Come dis vay . 
{Exit Jake and Adams r. u. e.) 



Scene III. — Front light wood in 3. Dark stage. Enter 
Haw with squad of Rebels, /. 2 e. They go to c. of 
stage. 

Haw — Halt ! They have certainly come this way, 
boys. That Yankee is altogether too cute for us ; I don't 
wonder at his getting away, but what in thunder did he 
want of that Dutch Sutler ? He has played a sharp 
trick. Now I think we will go a little further, but we 
are near the enemy's line, so I can only caution you to be 
careful. Boy's, remember, we wish to capture this pris- 
oner alive, if possible. Come along this way, carefully. 
{Exit squad r. 2 e.) 

Jake — (Enter I. as squad exit r.) You don't told me ! 
Say, Sharley, ve vas beated 'em dis time, don't it ? 

Adams — (Enter I.) Have they got out of the way yet, 
Jake ? 

Jake — Yes, dey vas gone. Come ahead. 

Adams — (Goes to /.) I am not so sure that we had 
better leave this place yet. You see there is quite an 
open piece of ground between this piece of woods and 
the woods over there, where the Union pickets are 
stationed, we will have to cross that open place to get to 
the Union lines. 



60 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Jake — Dot vas so. It's better dot ve shtay here, till 
de Rebels vas gone back. Shoost vait a minute. {Exit 

i- 3) 

Adams — Wonders will never cease Jake says he is a 
member of our regiment, and his actions certainly cor- 
roberate his words. He told me about Brady, and Sam, 
and Eugene, and of the death of Captain Gleason. Well, 
well, when I get inside the lines it will doubtless be ex- 
plained. 

Jake — Veil, now I vas ready. • 

Adams — Jake, Listen ! I believe those fellows are 
coming back this way. They are sure enough. 

Jake — Chimminy gracious ! You don't told me! 

Adams — Yes, they are coming, sure enough ! We must 
get back to our hiding place Jake, Come along! {Exit I. 2. e.) 
(Enter Haw and Squad r. 2. e.) 

Haw — I am confident that they have not yet reached 
the Yankee lines; but we must return, (to one of the squad ) 
Morris, you may stay close around here for an hour, and 
then return. (Morris goes off ' r. j. e.) Now boys we will 
go back to the quarters. (Exit I. 2. c.) 
(Adams and Jake reenter r. 3. e.( 

Adams — Now, Jake, we must get across this clearing, 
and right at the edge of it we will probably fine a Union 
picket. Carefully, now. 

Jake — Veil, you lead de vay, Sharley. I shoost follow 
behind. 

(Music: — Trem. pp. 'Just before the battle." Exit both r. 2.) 



Scene IV. — Roeky pass in j., and rock in I. u. e. Dark 
Stage. Eugene Ross discovered on picket duty, pacing 
at centre from r. to I. 

Ross — This is the dreariest duty of a soldier. On 



THE LOYAL HEART OF [861. 61 

picket duty at midnight. Well, it is nearly time for re- 
lief. The Officer of the Day said that this was a danger- 
ous post, and I daresay it is. O, dear ! I wish the war 
was over ! {At I. u. e.) There's someone coming ! Halt ! 
Who goes there ! 

Sam — (Outside.) A friend. 

Ross — O, it's Sam ! Advance friend, and give the 
countersign. 

Enter Sam 1. u. e. whispers in Ross's ear and goes to c.) 

Sam — Wal, Eugene, yew have got a ticklish job noaw, 
on this beat. 

Ross — So I was told. But I haven't been bothered 
any. 

Sam — Yew may be bothered yit, I saw a lot o' John- 
nies, or ruther I heard 'em aout across the clearin' ; it 
'peared as if they waslookin' for somebody. 

Ross — I'm glad you told me, Sam. I shall keep a 
lookout. Are there any more of our boys out this way ? 

Sam — Yes, the Irishman is out. Genie, that Irishman 
is as smart as lightin'. 

Ross — That's so. He is smart. 

Sam — Wal, I'll get to camp, I guess. Take care o' 
yourself. (Exitr. 2 e.) 

Ross — (Pacing stage from r. 2 e. to /. 2 e.) I hope that 
this cruel, horrible war will soon be over. But I would 
rather die myself than see the South succeed. (.-// /. 2 e.) 
Here's someone ! I expect it's Jimmy, Halt ! Who 
goes there ? 

Brady — (Outside.) It's a friend, Eugene. 

Ross — Advance, friend, and give the countersign ! 
(Enter Brady 1. 2 e. gives Ross the countersign.) 

Brady— It will be a bad night before morning, my boy. 
Was that Sam that came in a minute ago ? 



62 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Ross — Yes, it was Sam. He said he heard some Rebs 
prowling around. 

Brady — Begorry, I thought the same thing. So be 
careful of yourself, me dear boy, and kape your eyes 
wide open. {Exit r. 2 e.) 

Ross — How kind those boys are to me. I must write 
to mother about their many repeated acts of kindness. I 
don't know why I feel so uneasy to-night. There seems 
to be something in the air that warns me to be on my 
guard. I expect it will rain before daylight ; Jimmy 
said it would be a bad night yet. Now, I guess all our 
boys are in. I shall be on the lookout for any noises. 
Hello! {Goes tor. 2 e.) I'm sure I heard a noise. I 
see a rustling in the bushes there ! Halt! {Levels gun.) 
Halt, or I fire ! 

Jake — {Outside I. 2 e.) It's better dot you don't shoot ! 

Adams — {Outside ) It is Lieutenant Adama of the U. 
S. Volunteer army. I have just escaped from the Rebels 
by the aid of my companion. 

Ross — Thank Heaven ! The Lieutenant ! {Louder. ) 
My orders are strict, Lieutenant, not to let anyone pass 
without the countersign. {Turns r. 2 e. ealls) Corporal 
of Picket, Post No. 6 ! 

Corporal — {Enter Corporal and two Soldiers I. 2 e.) 
What is it, Eugene ? 

Ross — Lieutenant Adams and the Dutchman are out 
there ; they have escaped from the Rebels and haven't 
the countersign. 

Corporal and his guard exit 1. 2 e. and return with Adams and 
Jake.) 

Ross — I am very glad to see you safe out of the hands 
of the Rebels, Lieutenant. 

Adams — You must thank Jake for that. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 63 

Ross — The whole regiment will thank yon. We 
thought you had given us the slip 

Jake — I yust save the Lieutenant's life some more, 
ain't it ? 

Adams — I shall see you in the morning, Eugene, 
shall I not ? 

Ross — O, yes, certainly. O, I'm so glad you are safe. 
Now, if you follow that path {points toward r. / e.) it 
will take you to the regiment. 

Adams — All right. Come along, Jake. Good by till 
morning, Genie. {Exit with Jake r. 1 e.) 

Ross — Thank Heaven ! The Lieutenant is safe ! And 
how harshly we judged the Dutchman, too. I wonder 
how he contrived it? Well, I suppose I will know all 
about it in the morning. How awfully lonely it seems ! 
I feel a horrible dread of this post somehow ! I wish 
the relief would come. {Stands c, facing r. re.) This 
is the loneliest spot I ever saw. How many times I 
have talked with mother about this very kind of life — 
of its loneliness and danger. I wish I could see her to- 
night, O, mother, you little dream of your boy out here 
in these dreary woods, watching for any sign of the enemy ! 

(Music, tr em., till Adams and Jake on. Morris enters cau- 
tiously at 1. u. e., aims with gun at Ross and fires. Ross 
drops. Morris exit.) 

Ross — What is this? Someone has killed me! O, 
my dear, dear mother ! I shall never see you again. I 
shall never see you again. I cannot call for help ! I 
am too weak, and my life is passing away. But, thank 
God, it is in this righteous cause ! 

(Enter Adams and Jake hurriedly, r. 1 e.) 
Adams — I'm sure I heard a shot ! {Sees Ross.) Good 
Heavens ! They have killed Genie ! {Rushes to him.') 



64 THE LOYAL, HEART OF 1861. 

Genie, my boy ! Genie ! Speak to me ! {Kneels by 
him!) 

Ross — Ah, Lieutenant ! They have finished me at 
last. 

Adams — Jake, run to camp as quick as you can and 
get the surgeon ! Send anyone you see to this post ! 
{Jake exit r. 1 e ) My poor boy ! Are you badly hurt ? 

Ross — I am dying, Lieutenant Will you write to my 
mother ? Tell her how I was killed at my post. 

Adams — I will, my boy. But cheer up ! You are not 
dying ! 

(Music, trem., pp. Chorus to "Just Before the Battle," or if 
preferred, chorus to "Kiss Me, Mother, Kiss Your Darling." 

Ross — I know it too well ; I'm sinking fast. Cut a 
lock of hair from my head and send it to mother, will 
you, Lieutenant? I know you will. Good bye. Good 
bye. Thank God you are safe. 

Adams — My poor boy, I would willingly give my life 
to save you. All you can ask of me I will do. 

(Music. Quartette behind the scenes sings, "Kiss Me Moth- 
er, Kiss Your Darling." 

Kiss me mother, kiss your darling, 

Lay my head upon your breast ; 
Fold your loving arms around me, 

I am weary, let me rest. 

(Tableau and curtain.) 



THE LOYAL HEART OF r86i. 65 



ACT V. 

Scene I. — Kitchen in Three. Table at I, two chairs, one 
at r. of table, one in center. Brady in Lieutenant's ( T ni~ 
form discovered seated at table, writing. Pete seated on 
chair c. 

Brady — {Folding tetter.) — Pater, ye spalpeen, are ye 
there ? 

Pete — Heah's me, Marse Brady ! {Rises ) 

Brady — Take this letter to the Dutch Corporal, and tell 
him I'd like to see him as soon as convanient. 

Pete — For de Ian' sake, Marse Brady ! What do you 
want of him ? {Takes letter.) 

Brady — Pater, if the Dutchman axes ye what I want 
wid him tell him ye don't know. 

Pete — {Laughs.) Marse Brady, you'se cute, I tell you. 
Now, you want me to find de Sutler. 

Brady — No, ye spalpeen ! Not the Sutler ; the Dutch 
Corporal, Jake. 

Pete — {Laughs.) Dat's who I mean. You want me 
to find Marse Jake and give him dis yer letter, and tell 
him you don't know what you want him for. 

Brady — Pater, ye'er a blockhead ! Give him the letter 
and don't tell him anything. Now, do you mind ? 

Pete — All right, Marse Brady. {Exit r. u. e.) 

Brady — {Rising.) Well, begorry, this is fine. We have 
bated the Johnnies at last, and the war won't last long 
now. The regiment is changed in the last two years ; 
Colonel Adams was our Captain two years ago, and now 
I am in command of the Company. The Yankee, Sam, 
is Captain inanagerregiment. And our poor boy, Eugene, 



66 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

may his soul shine wid the saints in Glory. Ah, Leften- 
ant Brady, where would you be if it hadn't been for that 
lad. I belave I cry every time I think of him, shot at 
his post of duty. That nager is a worry to me mind, too. 
Well, I'll go out and take a turn in the orchard this fine 
spring morning. {Exit I. u. c.) 

(Enter Colonel Adams and General Weston 1. u. e.) 

Adams — The Lieutenant is not here, and as my room 
is occupied for the present, we will borrow Lieutenant 
Brady's quarters. {Moves a chair to back of table.) Sit 
down, General. 

Weston— {Sits at r. of table.) Well, Colonel, the tables 
appear to be turned. I find myself a prisoner in your 
hands now. 

Adams — General, about four years ago we were in 
Burton. The Rebellion had not fairly begun. To-day 
is is virtually ended. 

Weston — Yes, you are right ; it is virtually ended, as 
you say. But we fought hard for what we deemed 
our rights. 

Adams — Four years ago I parted from all of my early 
companions. I can never forget the time. 

Weston — Colonel, my greatest grief now is at the loss 
of my child, my Nina. Only a couple of days before the 
fight she was missing, and I have not seen or heard any- 
thing of her since. 

Adams — You may make your mind easy about Nina, 
General ; she has been under my care for the past week. 

Weston — Is it possible ? Is that true ? 

Adams — Yes, General, that is true. 

Weston — Then I am content. 

Adams — That is the subject upon wmich I wish to 
speak to you. When I parted from Nina, four years 



THE LOYAL HEART OF t86r. h- 

ago, I carried with me her assurance that her heart was 
mine. It is mine now, and after the war is ended, we 
propose, with your consent if possible, to unite our Lives 
in marriage. 

Weston — Ah, I always suspected as much. My con- 
sent not being an absolute necessity of course it is much 
more graceful and becoming in me not to withhold it. 
So you may consider my consent as gained. May I see 
my child ? 

Adams — Certainly ! {Exit door I. f. and returns lead- 
ing JVina, Harriet following .) Here she is ! 

Nina — (Kneeling to her father.') O, papa ! Please 
forgive me ! 

Weston — Forgive you? I have nothing to forgive, my 
child. God bless you. {Nina rises.) Harriet here, too ? 
Have you a kind word for me ? 

Harriet — Yes, many of them, sir. You were always 
kind to me. You have naturally a noble heart, and I 
believe you are satisfied with Nina's choice. 

Weston — Satisfied! Well, it don't appear to make 
any difference to the parties most concerned whether I 
am satisfied or not. 

Nina — O, papa ! As if I would marry without your 
consent ! 

Weston — Well, little puss, my consent is heartily 
given. I honor Colonel Adams, and I am glad that you 
have the good sense to love him. 

Nina — I always was pretty sensible, as far as that was 
concerned, ior I always did love him anyway, "for politi- 
pal reasons." 

Harriet — Yes, Nina, I believe you always appreciated 
the worth of such a loyal heart. 

Adams — Well, General, these were the guests that 
occupied my quarters this morning, and as I see Lieuten- 



68 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

ant Brady coming, we will return now. {Exuent Omnes 
I. u . e.) 

Brady — {Enter r. 2 e.) More visitors, be the looks of 
the chairs. Well, they can call again. 
(Enter Pete and Jake, r. u. e.) 

Jake — {Salutes.') I vas here, Lieutenant. 

Brady — Begorry, Corporal, you'er in luck ! The Co- 
lonel is busy this morning, so he left me to perform a very 
pleasant duty. I have the pleasure to tell you that you 
are promoted to be a Sergeant. 

Jake — You don't told me ! Now you vas jokin', 
ain't it ? 

Brady — Divil a bit av it ! Here's the warrant. {Gives 
Jake paper.) 

Jake — Veil, by Chimminy, I don't deserve dot ! Say, 
how much pay more I got? 

Brady — You get a couple av dollars more. 

Jake — I vish de var lasht long enough dot I got some 
more pay. Veil, I take him anyhow. 

Pete — Say, Marse Brady, ain't it about time I got pro- 
moted, too ? You know }^ou promised to promote me. 

Jake — Vat's de matter mit you? You don't vas a 
white man. 

Brady — I'll promote you, Pater. I'll give you to the 
Colonel when the war is over. 

Jake — Veil, und so I was a Sarjent ! Dot's good 
business ! Vot I do now ? 

Adams — {Enter r. 2 e.) Ah, Lieutenant ! You are 
here ! 

Brady — Ye're right, Colonel ? I'm here. 

Adams — I have some company to-day, Lieutenant. I 
wish you would detail a Sergeant and squad to go to the 
Brigade Commissary and get some eggs and butter for 
dinner. 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 69 

Brady— All right, Colonel. 

Adams — Well, Jake ; how are you this morning J 

Jake — I vas pooty well, Colonel. How you vas your- 
self ? 

Adams — {Glances at Warrant of promotion which fake 
is reading.) First rate ! And so you have gained pro- 
motion, eh ? 

Jake — Yes, I vas promoted. I vas a Sarjeant a' ready. 

Adams — Well, I trust you will be an honor to the reg- 
iment, Jake. Lieutenant, you will see to the provisions, 
will you ? 

Bradv — Of course, Colonel ; of course. {Exit Adams 
l. 2 e ) 

Pete —Never noticed me at all ! 

Brady — Now, Sarjent, — 

Jake — {Looking ;-. and /.) O, yah ; you vas shpeak- 
ing mit me. I forgot I vas a Sarjent. 

Brady — Ye may take a squad and go to the Brigade 
Commissary and get some butter and eggs for us ; now be 
off wid ye, and be back in time. 

Jake — Veil, I go. I buy some sausage, too, und I be 
back pooty quick. 

Salutes and exits r. 3 e. 

Brady — Now, Pater, fill me pipe, and fill your own 
too. I have no more work to do till dinnertime, so we'll 
take our aze. The war is pretty nigh over and Gineral 
Grant will borry Gineral Lee's sword of him before long, 
so we may as well enjoy ourselves. 



Scene II. — Street in front in 2. Enter Bane I. 

Bane — Well, the war is about ended. I am now inside 
of the Union lines, and experienced no difficulty in get- 



70 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

ting here I wonder what time the train leaves here for 
the North. I must get to Boston. That consignment 
of cotton that we sent to Thorp & Co. ought to be dis- 
posed of by this time. Ah, everything is changed in the 
past four years. I suppose Charlie Adams is killed ! 
General Weston is a prisoner, I know, and Harriet es- 
caped, probably to the Union lines, two years since. 
And I can find nothing of little Nina. O, dear ; O, dear ! 
{Looks off I.) Here comes a darkey. I'll ask him about 
the train. {Enter Pete I. with basket.} Say, my boy, can 
you tell me anything about the trains ? 

Pete — {Drops basket.) For de Ian' sake ! Is dat you, 
Marse Bane, or is it somebody else ? 

Bane — My name is Bane, certainly. You — no, it can't 
be possible that you are Pete ? 

Pete — Dat's my name, Marse Bane ! Whar did yo' 
come from ? 

Bane — I came from Burton. 

Pete — Whar yo' gwine ? 

Bane — I am on my way to Boston . 

Pete — Fo' de Ian' sake ? I suppose you'll stop an' see 
Marse Adams an' ole Marse Weston? {Jakes basket.) 

Bane — Where are they, Pete ? Where are they ? 

Pete — Why, dey are jess about a mile from here. 
Marse Weston, he's a prisoner, but he's on de pay roll 
and he stays wid Marse Colonel, dat's Marse Adams. 

Bane — Of course I shall see them. Come and show me 
the way, Pete. 

Pete — Well, jess come dis way. 

(Masic — I ively till Jake says "Halt !" Exit with Bane r. 
Enter Jake with four soldiers. When at center Jake calls 
"Halt !" All stop.) 

Jake — Halt ! Veil, boys ; you see the United States 
he tink so much of me dot he make me a Sarjent a'ready, 



THE LOYAL HEART OK [861 



7' 



and I got more pay as any of you. So you shoost mind 
me vot I say, und remember you vas all Yankee soldiers, 
und make yourself look pooty, like me, Now, ve must 
go get dot butter und eggs. Forward ' March ! 
{Exit /. / e.) 

(Draw off street.) 



Scene III. — Woods or rocky pass in five ; tents on stage. 

Anus stacked. Soldiers on guard. Soldiers ; guard 
under command of Lieutenant Brady. If there is a glee 
club the guard may consist wholly or in part of its mem- 
bers. Men are seated on floor in easy positions about the 
stage. Music — " Tenting To-night on the Old Camp 
Ground." 

Soldier on Guard — {When music ceases, looking r.) 
Turn out the Guard ! Colonel commanding regiment ! 

Brady — {Drawing his saber. Position center of guard 
one pace in front.) Fall in the Guard. (Soldiers form in 
two ranks behind the stacks of muskets.) Take, Arms ! 
Shoulder, Arms ! 

(Enter Colonel Adams r. 3 e. crosses to 1.) 

Brady — {When Colonel Adams reaches c. of guard.) 
Present, Arms ! (Lieutenant Brady salutes with saber.) 
Shoulder, Arms ! Order, Arms ! 

Adams — {Answers salute by touching his hat.) Well, 
Lieutenant, the news has been very interesting during 
the past few days ; Richmond has fallen ; Fort Fisher 
has yielded to the indomitable courage of General Curtis 
and his brave men, and General Lee is in full retreat. 
Peace can not be far away . 

Brady — (Waves his hand to Sergeant of Guard % who 



72 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

has the muskets restacked quietly and the guard dismissed, 
resume easy positions.) You are right, Colonel, the war 
is nearly over. I have been tould that General Lee has 
sint in a flag of thruce, and asked for a bit of a talk with 
Gineral Grant. 

Adams — Yes, so it is reported ! 

Jake — {Enter Jake Schmidt and his squad r. and stop 
inside tine of muskets and commands ) Order, Arms ! 
Stack, Arms ! (Jake salutes.) Der Commissary vas 
glosed Colonel, und everybody vas gone by headquarters 
dot dey hear de news. 

Adams — Well, all right, Sergeant, stop at one of the 
stores in town as you return. 

Brady — Say, Sargeant, can't you and the boys sing us 
that song you were singing the other night ? 

Jake — Veil, I guess dot ve can. Vot you say boys, 
all right, eh ? 

All — Yes, of course 

(All the singing desired. After singing is finished some of 
the men looking off to the 1.) 

Soldier — What is the excitement over there ? 

Jake — Dere's a soldier coming on horse-back, riding- 
like der dy vel . 

Brady — He is swinging his hat-! I suppose it is news 
from the front ! 

Adams — The men are running toward him swinging 
their hats. {Takes field glass and climbs on to set rock and 
looks off to /.) It is an officer — an aid from headquarters, 
I think ! He is coming this way ! 

(Cheers heard in the distance.) 

Brady — I can hear the cheering ! 

Jake — By Chimminy ! You don't told me ! 



THE LOYAL HEART OF d86i. 73 

Adams — {Closes glass \ returns it to case and comes from 

rock.) He is coming here ! 

(Cheering near by, sound of horses gallop if it can be imi- 
tated. Officer bursts into camp, staggers as though ex- 
hausted and is caught by Colonel Adams and Lieutenant 
Brady.) 

Adams and Brady — (Tog-ether.) — Lieutenant Clark ! 
Lieutenant Clark — Yes, Colonel, I have ridden all 
night to let you know that Lee has surrendered ! 
(Jake swings his hat and men cheer ) 

Scene closes street in 1. 

(Lively music until Jake and his squad is on, the soldiers 
carrying bundles.) 

Jake — {Enters /. 1 e. and at the center of the stage coiu- 
mands) "Halt !" Bill, vot you got, eh ? 

Bill— Eggs ! 

Jake — Eggs, eh ? Dot was right. Vot you got, Jim ? 

Jim — Butter. 

Jake — Butter, eh ? Dot vos right, too. Vot you got, 
George ? 

George — Eggs. 

Jake — Eggs, eh ? Dot makes two eggs und one butter. 
Veil, Sheneral Lee has surrendered, und de var he vas 
oudt, und if ve don't hurry up all de solgers vill be dis- 
charged und gone home before ve got back to camp. 
Shoulder, Arms ! Forward, March ! (Exit r. r e.) 

("Home, Sweet Home" till change of scene, and Harriet 
speaks.) 



74 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1S61. 

Scene IV. — Center door chamber at back. Parlor furni- 
ture. Stand at r. Harriet discovered seated at stand. 
Harriet — Peace at last ! The long struggle is over ; 
the slaves are free ; the Union is saved ! But at what a 
sacrifice ! Some of the noblest, truest hearts that ever 
beat have been forever stilled in the conflict. But, thank 
Heaven ! The dark night has passed away forever, and 
the glorious day of freedom has begun. Have I not 
every cause to rejoice ? Here I am, surrounded by my 
old friends, a welcome inmate of this house ; Charlie and 
Nina are united in marriage, and have urged me to make 
their house my home, till I was at last forced to consent. 
Bane — (Enter c. d.) Harriet, is it you ? 
Harriet — (Rising and shaking hands.) Yes ; and how 
delightful it is to see such a friend as Mr. Bane once 
more. Have you seen Mr. and Mrs. Adams ? 

Bane — No, not yet. (Taking off gloves, laying hat on 
table, etc ) I only arrived this moment from Boston. I 
tried to be present at the wedding, but it was impossible. 
Harriet — O, I wish you had been here. But it is better 
late than never. I hope you will decide to make a good, 
long visit before you return to Burton. 

Bane — I should like to have been here, but business 
before pleasure, you know, has always been the rule in 
the house of the late firm of Weston & Bane. From 
what I have seen I like Oneida very much. I don't think 
I shall return to Burton to live. I prefer to embark in 
some business in this State. Everything has changed in 
our old home. The war has swept away the savings of 
years. 

Harriet — We shall certainly be very happy if Mr. Bane 
will make his home near us. Mr. Weston no doubt feels 
the change in his circumstances keenly. 

Bane — Then I shall be able to give him some very wel- 



THE LOYAL HEART OF t86i. 75 

come information. A consignment that we sent to Thorp 
& Co. of Boston, over four years ago, has turned out 
well ; and I am in hopes that several other ventures that 
we undertook previous to the war, are not quite lost. 

Harriet — I heartily congratulate you Mr. Bane. 

Bane — I shall return to Burton and sell out all my in- 
terests in South Carolina and remove to this State. That 
is my present intention. 

Harriet — I am sure this will be welcome news to all 
your old friends ; but I am keeping you from them. 

Bane — I will go and find Mr. Adams. {Exit c. d.) 

Harriet — What a joyful surprise to General Weston ; 
this one ray of light out of the black night of ruin. 

Nina — {At c. d.) May I come in, Aunt Harriet ? 

Harriet — {Rising.') Of course, child. 

Nina — {Enters.) O, dear ! I have been having such 
a time. Out in the garden, running all over and looking 
at our place. You don't know what a perfect little para- 
dise we have here, Auntie ! {Sits c) 

Harriet — I know it is beautiful, very beautiful ! 

Nina — Who was that in here just before I came in ? 
Was it papa ? 

Harriet — No ; it was Mr. Bane. 

Nina — What ! Mr. Bane ! {Rising.) O. where is 
he ? Where is he ? 

Harriet — He went out to find Charlie. 

Nina — I must see him ! Come with me, Aunt Harriet, 
till we find him. Come, please do ! (Exit with Harriet 
e.d.) 

(Enter General Weston r. 2 e., with newspaper. He sits at 
table.) 

Weston — This is a delightful place. I almost hate to 
return to Burton ; still that is where my duty is. I shall 
be happy knowing that my child is happy, at any rate. 



76 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

I don't know how my circumstances will be ; poor 
enough ; no doubt. 

Nina — {Outside, Laughs.) Come right in here, both 
of you. Do you hear, gentlemen ? 

(Enter Nina c. d. drawing Bane by the hand. Adams and 
Harriet follow.) 

Adams — Why, little girl, won't you give us a chance 
to talk ? (Appear.) 

Weston — {Rises ) Bane is that you ? When did you 
arrive ? ( Weston and Bane shake hands.) 

Bane — I came but a few minutes ago . 

Nina — Now just sit down, and tell us all about it. 

(Bane sits back of stand. General Weston sits at 1. of stand 
Nina c. Adams and Harriet stand near c. d. at 1. appar- 
ently conversing.) 

Bane — Well, our ship has come in, Will that do, Nina ? 

Nina — What ship, pray? 

Bane — A consignment to a firm in Boston. 

Adams — Not Thorp & Co., is it Mr. Bane ? 

Bane — Ah, you remember it, eh? That's the one. 
General, we have some money left yet, from that lucky 
consignment. 

Weston — Is that true ? 

Pete — (At c. d.) Marse Colonel, dey's a man want's to 
see you. Shall I show him in ? 

Adams — Certainly, show him in Pete. (Pete exit.) 
I remember that consignment Mr. Bane. We were 
speaking of it at the beginning of the war, in Burton 
one day. 

Pete — (Outside.) Dis way, sah. 
Enter Sam Snicker. 

Adams — (Seizes Sam's hands.) Why, Sam ! Is this 
you? Where did you come from ? 



THE LOYAL HEART OF 1.S61. 77 

Sam — Frum hum, Colonel. Wal, I swan ! I'm glad 
to see yew, I jest am. 

Adams — Nina, this is Sam, or Captain Snicker This 
is my wife, Sam. 

(Nina and Sam shake hands.) 

Sam — Wal, yew don't say so ! Purty as a peach tew, 
ain't she ? 

Pete — {At c. d.) Heah's anoder, Marse. 
Enter Brady c. d.) 

Adams — Jimmy, is it you ? {Shakes hands.) 

Brady — Begorry, it is. How are ye, anyway ? And 
the Yankee, too ! How are ye Sam ? {Shakes hands 
with Sam.) 

Adams — Well, this is a surprise ! Lieutenant Brady, 
I will introduce you to my wife. Nina, Lieutenant 
Brady. General Weston, Captain Snicker and Lieuten- 
ant Brady. Also Mr. Bane. 

(Appropriate business.) 

Sam — Wal, Colonel, I come on a little business, tew. 
Yew've got a nice place here ; but your house needs one 
thing, yet. 

Adams — And what's that, Sam ? 

Sam — It needs a lightin' rod. Naow, I'm sellin' the 
best kind o' lightnin' rods. 

Adams — I'll have one, sure. But sit down, sit down, 
both of you ! {Both sit I.) 

Brady — Captain, the Colonel is looking fine, so he is. 
And it does a feller's heart good to see him. 

Sam — That's so, Lewtenant. Colonel, I've got some 
gold tipped lightnin' rods that would just suit yew. 

Adams — 111 have you put one up to-morrow, Sam, a 
genuine gold tipped rod. And Jimmy you have not told 
us yet how you came to be here. 



78 THE LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 

Brady — Begorry , that's azy told. I heard ye was mar- 
ried from — well — from a person here thet knew you was 
my Colonel. 

Adams — O, yes ; I understand ! You heard it from 
somebody that is going to be Mistress Brady, I suspect ! 

Brady — Well, I won't say ye'er wrong ! 

Weston — It is a pleasant thing, Charlie, to meet these 
friends, isn't it ? 

Nina — O, isn't ! I envy both the Captain and Lieu- 
tenant, their feelings of pleasure. 

Bane — Yes, everybody seems happy on this occasion. 

Pete — (Outside.) You can't go in dar, I tell you ; 
Marse Colonel done got company. 

Jake — (Outside.) Veil, I vas company, too, don't it ? 
I vas a whole regiment, all by myself ! (Enter e. d.) 
Colonel, how you vas ? 

Brady — Well, if it ain't Dutchy. 

Adams — Why, Jake ! (Shakes hands ) You are wel- 
come. Now our circle is complete. 

Jake — Und here vas Chenral Veston. Say, Chenral. 
how you vas do ? Pooty veil ? 

Weston— This isn't the Sutler, is it ? 

Jake — I vas de Sutler, Chenral. 

Nina — What you the old Sutler of papa's regiment ? 

Jake — By Chimminy ; dot vas de same gal ! Say, 
dot letter don't vas got to de Sheef of Boleese yet, ain't 
it? 

Bane — Jake, have you forgotten all your old friends ? 

Jake — You don't told me ; you vas dot Mr. Bane. 

Bane — That's who I am. 

Jake — ( Turns and sees Brady and Sam.) Veil, vas de 
whole army here ? Und de Shtate of Sout' Carolina, 
too ? 

Adams — Jake, this is my wife. (Introducing A r ina.) 



THK LOYAL HEART OF 1861. 79 

Jake — Veil, don't say anoder vord ! You could shoost 
knock me down mit a fedder. 

(Arrangement of characters to suit the stage.) 

Adams — Now, I feel happy, So many of my best 
friends here, and all by accident, gives me pleasure that 
I can poorly express. 

Jake — Say, Colonel! {Beckons to Adams. Both f.) 
I vas got a chance dot I go into pooty good business. 
Dey vas a man down here on de next shtreet dot he got a 
pooty good saloon, und he sold it pooty sheep und 
throwed a billiard table in, und I bought him out. 

Adams — Indeed ! 

Jake — Yes. Now, venever you come by, shoost drop 
in und take a glass of beer. I don't sharge you anyding 
for it more as half de time. It's right down here on de 
corner. 

Adams — {Laughs.) All right, Jake. {Jake goes back 
ta Sam and Brady.) 

Bane — To-day is the happiest day of my life. 

Harriet — And of mine, too. Ah, how T happy we should 
be ! The long conflict is over at last ; and though many 
have suffered and many homes are desolate, we are an 
unbroken family, as much as we were five years ago. 
And that the one curse of the land is removed ; that the 
bond are made free ; that peace and prosperity will hence- 
forth attend the Government ; is all owing to God above. 

Nina — And our Loyal Hearts ! 
(Music — "Hail Columbia," ff.) 
Curtain. 



[THE END.] 



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